Fossil snake 'as long as a bus' found

by Caedes 16 Replies latest social current

  • Caedes
    Caedes

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7868588.stm

    The discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world's largest snake has been reported in Nature journal.
    Titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long - about the length of a bus - and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago.

    The snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person's hips, say researchers, who have estimated that it weighed more than a tonne.

    According to the report this thing might have eaten crocodiles and alligators!

    Anyway one of the most interesting things is that the size of this snake can tell scientists the average temperature in it's native environment. The higher the temperature the larger cold-blooded animals can get.

    The weather 59 million years ago in Columbia - skorchio!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Tee hee hee.

    Sylvia

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    So maybe Eve was told, "You surely will not die if you eat of the tree in the middle of the garden. But if you don't, I will gobble you up!"

  • Caedes
    Caedes

    So what you are saying is that original sin was just a case of sibling bullying?!

    "But, god, Satan made me do it...it's soooo unfair...I hate you!"

  • hamilcarr
    hamilcarr

    The original serpent ...

  • Jim_TX
    Jim_TX

    Wow! This should give those fellas in Hollywood a new slant to 'Snakes on a Plane'!

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    According to the report this thing might have eaten crocodiles and alligators!

    This happened near where I live:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151/

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html

    BTS

  • John Doe
  • Caedes
    Caedes

    I dont think titanoboa would have had any problems keeping his lunch down!

  • keyser soze
    keyser soze

    That beats the one in my pants.

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