In South American and African newspapers. Tales aout enormous snakes are very frequent throughout This image has surfaced on a few websites over the years was taken by a passenger on a plane flown by a WWII pilot upon returning back to their Congo base from a mission
Window = 'AOuZoY50w2Pz3rnanEh08jayxjE7d5M0Dg:1688228803478' _WidgetManager._Init('//_WidgetManager.Alleged encounter with a giant snake in Katanga 1959: See also: The Largest Insect Ever Existed Was a Giant "Dragonfly" This Gigantic, Extinct Devil Frog Was Capable of Eating Dinosaurs Most of the plus-size reptiles in Titanoboa's habitat were algae-colored and difficult to see against the landscape, making it easier to find dinner. The giant snake hunted by sneaking up on its prey. Unlike some contemporary poisonous snakes, Titanoboa wouldn't have benefited from brightly colored markings. It shared its ecosystem with large Crocodylomorpha and large turtles, which may have served as food for the giant snake, except large sized Purusaurus brasiliensis, for example, too big for Titanoboa to handle. Titanoboa inhabited the first recorded Neotropical forest in the world. cerrejonensis found had a total length around 12.8 m (42 ft) and weighed about 1,135 kg (2,500 lb 1.12 long tons 1.25 short tons). The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis.īy comparing the sizes and shapes of its fossilized vertebrae to those of extant snakes, researchers estimated that the largest individuals of T.
The giant snake lived during the Middle to Late Paleocene epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Life-sized model of Titanoboa devouring a crocodilian, from the Smithsonian exhibitįossils of Titanoboa have been found in the Cerrejón Formation, and date to around 58 to 60 million years ago.
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