Titanoboa is in the subfamily Boinae, being most closely related to other extant boines from Madagascar and the Pacific. It was originally known from purely thoracic vertebrae and ribs, but later expeditions collected parts of the skull and teeth.
It was not named until 2009 in the journal Nature, being dubbed Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever found. Titanoboa was first discovered in the 2000s by students from the University of Florida and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, recovering over 186 fossils of Titanoboa from the site.
'titanic boa') is an extinct genus of giant boid, the family that includes all boas and anacondas, snake that lived in what is now La Guajira in northeastern Colombia during the middle and late intervals of the Paleocene. Titanoboa ( / ˌ t aɪ t ə n ə ˈ b oʊ ə/ lit.
