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The Buzz: Massive Snake Dug Up in Amazon

amillikan | February 6, 2009

While anacondas and pythons, the largest known snakes alive today, can reach over 30 feet long and swallow antelope whole, they are dwarfed in size by the newly discovered Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a serpent that lived during the Paleocene epoch whose bones were unearthed recenty in a Colombia coal mine. By analyzing the snake's vertebrae, paleontologists were able to determine that Titanoboa measured over 42 feet long and weighed more than 1.3 tons—nearly 30 times the mass of an anaconda. Related ScienceBlogs Posts: Titanoboa - thirteen metres, one tonne, largest snake ever.. Titanoboa!…