Ancient snake was as long as a bus

[scutechute]

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


Excerpt:

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

[_Venom_]

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

[STORMS]

Very cool

Thanks for sharing

[azpythons]

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

[Texas Dan]

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

Fairly expensive I would imagine too.

[nixer]

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.

[azpythons]

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

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

[disabled.101]

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

[xdeus]

"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

[southb]

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