Ancient snake was as long as a bus

From MSNBC.COM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29014818/


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Fossils of the extinct snake species, now called Titanoboa cerrejonensis, were discovered in the Cerrejon Coal Mine in northern Colombia.

From the fossilized vertebrae, the researchers conservatively estimate the snake weighed about 2,500 pounds and measured nearly 43 feet nose to tail tip.


Handling would clearly have been a two-person job :rofl:

Wow, I couldn't believe it till I saw this picture.

The small vertebrate bone is from an Anaconda!!!


http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/C...pare.small.jpg

Very cool :cool:

Thanks for sharing :D

hooollly schammoolllly can u imagine if there was a piebald that big...thatd be pretty dope

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Originally Posted by azpythons

hooollly schammoolllly can u imagine if there was a piebald that big...thatd be pretty dope

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Fairly expensive I would imagine too.

geez could you imagine the size of the cage!
how about feeding it you would have to have a hog farm surely!
i think for a snake this big you would surely need atleast 5 ppl around.

Thats the understatement of a lifetime.......... i think this snake would laugh at 5 people, i say 50!
well maybe 20 or so

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Originally Posted by nixer

i think for a snake this big you would surely need atleast 5 ppl around.

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Damn you beat me to it. Here is my link :D
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7868588.stm

"At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips. The size is pretty amazing," said co-author P David Polly :O

I've already order a pair of albino hets from Jurassic Park Breeders Inc lol
:rofl:

That's pretty amazing.

very interesting.. thanx for sharing.

Hi,

Now bearing that in mind anyone want ot comment on this old story?


dr del

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Originally Posted by dr del

Hi,

Now bearing that in mind anyone want ot comment on this old story?


dr del

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:O
no comment...

that's......terrifying! never heard of that before. but really though, i pity the fool that "discovers" that thing.

Wow dell.... that story is pretty crazy!


Bad thing about this is I bet people end up using this as a reason to ban snakes... Before you know it someone will explain that a hatchling burmese python, set loose in South Florida, given the right temperatures, could easily turn into this 2500 lb beast.... :rolleye2:

Ancient Snake Was Longer Than a Bus


(Feb. 4) - Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.
"This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus," enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find.

http://news.aol.com/article/fossil-o...e-found/329070

Yup, saw that on Fox News. My roommate thought it was still alive but one look at the picture told me that the creature in the background was prehistoric.

yup thats crazy thought it would be sick if it were still alive tho ...