They Found Titanoboa in a Coal Mine

Deep beneath the sweltering forests of northern Colombia, miners weren’t looking for monsters. They were digging for coal. But in the Cerrejón Coal Mine, they uncovered something far more astonishing — enormous fossilized vertebrae so large that at first, scientists thought they belonged to a prehistoric crocodile or even a dinosaur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices