Largest Prehistoric Snake

Largest prehistoric snake

Postby Admin » 06 Feb 2009, 14:39

Scientists have recovered fossils of a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and more cuddly.

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Re: Largest prehistoric snake

Postby Faw_Peter » 07 Feb 2009, 00:05

that's impressing, at least for me, the man who's afraid of a 1 meter long snake. It weighs more than 1 ton, can you imagine it's like a small car... what in the world it used to ate? Dinosaurs?
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Re: Largest prehistoric snake

Postby Benn » 11 Feb 2009, 23:07

One snake like this can bring food for an average town of about 10,000 people. :shock:
This discovery is important as it could change certain understandings about the world evolution, including dinosaurs.
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Re: Largest prehistoric snake

Postby Benn » 17 Feb 2009, 21:37

Ecologists and human right protectors would be ready to kill a human for only one snake of these, while leather producers, would give solid amounts for this snake :)
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Re: Largest prehistoric snake

Postby Martin » 27 Dec 2009, 10:41

Evolution has produced a wide variety of gigantic animals over the last several hundred million years -- dinosaurs, ancient dragonflies, and today's blue whale but some species of monsters remains a matter of debate among evolutionary biologists and ecologists.
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