In the same fossil rainforest, the researchers also found giant sea turtles and crocodile relatives. The giant reptile was a boine snake, a type of non-venomous constrictor that includes anacondas and boas. Review bones from the world's largest snake, which grew up to 60 ft, weighed 1 1/2 tons and was the largest vertebrate on earth for 20 million years. Jason Bourque: (plaid shirt) FLMNH museum technician Photo by Ray Carson - UFĪlex Hastings : (blue shirt) PHD student in geological sciences Bottom: two vertebrae (white), and a partial skull & mandible of modern 17 foot Anaconda, for scale. Middle: series of vertebrae with one rib extending below. ![]() Top: series of vertebrae and ribs of 45 foot Titanoboa. ![]() He added, "The snake's body was so wide that if it were moving down the hall and decided to come into my office to eat me, it would literally have to squeeze through the door."įossils of the extinct snake species, now called Titanoboa cerrejonensis, were discovered in the Cerrejon Coal Mine in northern Colombia.įrom the fossilized vertebrae, the researchers conservatively estimate the snake weighed about 2,500 pounds and measured nearly 43 feet nose to tail tip.
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