A Snake the size of a bus?
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more from Green:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7868588.stm
"The discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world's largest snake has been reported in Nature journal.Titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long - about the size of a London bus - and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago.
The snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person's hips, say researchers, and was estimated to have weighed more than a tonne.
Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the beast's 13m-long body and 1,140kg (2,500lb) weight make it the largest snake on record.
"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, from Indiana University in Bloomington, US.
Researchers discovered fossilised bones belonging to the super-sized slitherers and their possible prey at Cerrejon, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines. The animal is a relative of modern boa constrictors. "
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SANMedia
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Everything was big 60 million years ago, what's new?
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SANMedia
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Horntho [removed]
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Tayllerand
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Colombia a country full of beautiful women. I have seen the most beautiful women in that country all of you adventurers who wants to see beauty go to Colombia thats the place.
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Tayllerand
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richjm
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Length of a bus perhaps but technically not the size of a bus since it only "would have reached up to a person's hips."
Still absolutely huge and something I wouldn't willingly wrestle, lucky loin cloth or not.
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richjm
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Humdrum
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Not surprising at all, considering the prey they had to bring down.
Traveling back in time would be a friggin' living nightmare.
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Humdrum
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Humdrum:
wouldn't it be very difficult to breathe in prehistoric atmosphere? maybe impossible? i thought the oxygen levels would be very different...
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Nephwrack
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ras_menelik
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Britannica couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't do it this fast!
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ras_menelik
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mekbd
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that is freaking huge.
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mekbd
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pjacobs51
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Ride the bus? no, ride the snake.
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pjacobs51
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Allorno1
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A old snake goes to see his Doctor. "Doc, I need something for my eyes...can't see well these days". The Doc fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in 2 weeks. The snake comes back in 2 weeks and tells the doctor he's very depressed. Doc says, "What's the problem...didn't the glasses help you?" "The glasses are fine doc, I just discovered I've been living with a water hose the past 2 years.
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Allorno1
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Gargaryun
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...I'm a medium-small Man Who's been known to eat reptiles!...Oh wait, there wasn't an "a" in Your sentence...
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Gargaryun
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dariusvons
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we need large man eating reptiles again... I think that would remind us of our limits.
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dariusvons
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yaget1chance
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"Planes on a Snake" has possibilities, don't ya think??
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Raveway
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yaget1chance:
haha okay that made me laugh
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Raveway
