In Northeastern Columbia fossils were found of an old prehistoric snake that was around 15 meters and 38 cm long, reaching more then 1133 kilograms it was easily the worlds largest recorded snake. "This thing weighs more then a bison and is longer then a city bus" says enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History.
The gihugic beast ate the ancient relatives of crocodiles, scientists think, and scientists also think this gihugic behemoth was on this earth some 58 to 60 million years ago. The snakes name is Titanoboa Cerrejonensis which means "titanic boa from cerrejon" the region it was found.
Now interestingly enough it was part of the boa family but acted more like an anaconda which i don't believe is part of the boa family. The snake was actually revealed in 2007 in Florida's university of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.when they realized it was a snake that they were looking at they quickly pulled out an anaconda skeleton to compare the difference. The difference was that the anaconda backbone was the size of a silver dollar and the fossils was the size of a large Florida grapefruit. Now my thoughts of this article was that I really like snakes, so to know that they found one that was originally 15 meters long is just amazing.
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