Thursday, February 5, 2009

Worlds Largest Snake "Titanoboa"


PANAMA CITY: Scientists have found a 60-million-year-old fossil of the world's largest snake, in a coal mine in Colombia.


This "Monster" snake was more than 40 feet long and weighed more than a ton.

The creature, which has been named Titanoboa Cerrejonensis, slithered around the South American rainforest more than 60 million years ago.

Guess what? It was longer than a London bus.

Titanoboa's size indicates it lived in an environment where the average yearly temperature was 86F to 93F (30C to 34C).

Lead researcher Dr Jason Head, of the University of Toronto, said: "The discovery of Titanoboa challenges our understanding of past climates and environments, as well as the biological limitations on the evolution of giant snakes.

"This shows how much more information about the history of Earth there is to glean from a resource like the reptile fossil record."



I hope soon there will be a movie on Titanoboa, where it starts eating all Anacondas around it, and not to forget Anaconda missed out Jennifer Lopez.


I hope from now on Titanoboa haunts everybody's Dream ☺

All above Images are only for representational since only fossilized remains of Titanoboa are found. And thank God it’s not alive.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

in my garden are u kidding

Anonymous said...

what is that snake eating?