Ancient Snake Was Longer Than a Bus
Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered and it’s a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds. It weighs more than a bison and longer than a city bus, according to a snake exper named Jack Conrad. This snake is even bigger than the one you saw in Jennifer Lopez’s movie Anaconda. The snake, which the discoverers named Titanoboa cerrejonensis can eat something the size of a cow and a human would be toast in an instant. Actually, the beast probably munched on ancient relatives of crocodiles in its rainforest home some 58 million to 60 million years ago.
The prehistoric creature behaved like an anaconda and spent most of its time in the water although it is related to modern boa constrictors. It could slither on land as well as swim.
Titanoboa breaks the record for snake length by about 11 feet, surpassing a creature that lived about 40 million years ago in Egypt. Among living snake species, the record holder is an individual python measured at about 30 feet long, which is some 12 to 15 feet shorter than typical Titanoboas.
Here’s some good news for Ophidiophobics.. We won’t be having giant snakes because we are removing most of their habitats by development and deforestation in equatorial regions.
