While Anaconda is more well known among the two, a snake species named Titanoboa is also no less famous. Although the snake went extinct many years ago, it used to be longer than the Anaconda.

Scientists working in Colombia have discovered the largest snake on the planet, an animal that blows away previous records.

Robert Clark/Institute Titanoboa, pictured with a dyrosaur ... animal was more closely related to a boa or anaconda. The size of the snake immediately raised questions about how it got to be ...