SAEDNEWS: Fortunately, This Giant Snake Went Extinct Years Ago — It Was Called Titanoboa
According to the Saed News Social Affairs Service, citing Khabar Online, its name is Titanoboa. If you want to understand just how enormous it was, take a close look at the image below.
In this image, you see the vertebrae of two snakes. The smaller vertebra belongs to a 7-meter-long anaconda, recognized as the heaviest living snake in the world. The massive vertebra on the right belongs to Titanoboa, a colossal snake that weighed up to 1,000 kilograms and is now extinct.
Titanoboa remains were discovered in 2009 during research at a coal mine in Colombia. Initially, due to the astonishing size of the fossilized bones, scientists could hardly believe they were dealing with a snake fossil.
These gigantic snakes had body diameters of up to one meter and lengths exceeding 15 meters. With dimensions comparable to a bus, Titanoboa was one of the largest predators in the world following the age of dinosaurs.
Scientists believe the enormous size of these snakes can be attributed to the warm and humid climate of their habitat. Cold-blooded creatures such as reptiles and snakes tend to grow larger in warm environments, suggesting that the habitat of these snakes was likely warmer than it is today.
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