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  • CBC News - Technology & Science - Ancient snakes massive size points to extra hot jungle: study

    Ancient Snake's Bones Found An artist's rendition shows the giant snake lounging in the tropical jungle 60 million years ago, near primitive crocodiles and giant turtles. Researchers have found the remains of what they are billing as the biggest snake the world has ever... more

    Reviewed by roslyn217 Feb 04 2009, 11:07pm ( 7 reviews ) • cbc.ca

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  • Rated by devdsingh on Feb 17 2009, 1:12am

    big snakes../

  • Rated by jajajayu on Feb 10 2009, 8:36pm

    '"If it was around today and it swallowed you, you wouldn't even be a bulge in its belly," said Head.' Paleontologists webcamming: 'He said he first saw one of the snake's giant vertebrae, the bones in its backbone, while chatting online with co-author Jonathan Bloch, from the University of Florida, who held them up in front of webcam. "I jumped out of my seat and got very excited and he started laughing and I started laughing ... because it's just such a mind-bogglingly big animal," Head recalled. (from the largely boned)

  • Rated by ChermonX on Feb 07 2009, 5:13am

    OUr climate is getting hotter - so, we can expect Titanoboa's rebirth?

  • Reviewed by thaxtor on Feb 05 2009, 11:35am

    wow..this is crazy

  • Rated by roslyn217 on Feb 04 2009, 11:07pm

    Ancient Snake's Bones Found An artist's rendition shows the giant snake lounging in the tropical jungle 60 million years ago, near primitive crocodiles and giant turtles. Researchers have found the remains of what they are billing as the biggest snake the world has ever known -- an animal estimated to be longer than a city bus and heftier than a car. The boa constrictor-like reptile lived in South America about 60 million years ago and its size provides valuable clues about what the climate was like in the equatorial tropics at that time, said a study published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature by an international team of authors that included University of Toronto paleontologist Jason Head. A vertebra (one bone of the spine) of a 5-metre long anaconda, one of the largest living snakes, looks tiny beside a similar bone from the 13-metre long Titanoboa. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/tech-giant-sna ke.html

  • Rated by strandline on Feb 04 2009, 5:09pm

    "Researchers have found the remains of what they are billing as the biggest snake the world has ever known -- an animal estimated to be longer than a city bus and heftier than a car. The boa constrictor-like reptile lived in South America about 60 million years ago and its size provides valuable clues about what the climate was like in the equatorial tropics at that time, said a study published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature by an international team of authors that included University of Toronto paleontologist Jason Head. "If it was around today and it swallowed you, you wouldn't even be a bulge in its belly," said Head." News stories like this always remind me of The Little Prince ...