Holy Moly, thats a big f... snake...

[timpaatkins]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/04/snake-giant-fossil-titanoboa

They just found some awesome fossils.

"The boa constrictor-like beasts, aptly named Titanoboas, weighed more than one and a quarter tonnes and measured at least 13m long from nose to tip. At their widest, the snakes would have come up to the waist of an adult human."

[Ryuartyi]

This is really awesome news. I really like constrictor-snakes so this is a really awesome find, along with the fact that they were able to find a new ancient species.

[aylap]

Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?? Lol

In all seriousness, that is awesome. I find new discoveries fascinating :D

[bluefooted]

Man, that's a big snake...

There was also a recent announcement of a cool whale/dolphin ancestor:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/02/03/the-backward-whale/

[LORD M]

Man, that's a big snake...

There was also a recent announcement of a cool whale/dolphin ancestor:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/02/03/the-backward-whale/

Hehe, I remember that one. Evolution sure do work in strange ways. :)

[Psychotime]

So in other words, this one would have eaten the plane and made Mr. Jackson shut up?

(Get it?)

[timpaatkins]

Plane in a Snake.

[Surzsha]

Wow, who'd have thought?

[aesir]

check out this photo...

(very large photo. Look around)


http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/kimberlyfishing2ok.jpeg

[m@.]

I wish I could live to the day when we will know all (or a big part, I guess) species that ever existed and be able to see them through their ancestry line in a simulation... that will be some sweet visuals :) a bit along the same vein as this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKjF7OumYo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKjF7OumYo)

[Parka81]

check out this photo...

(very large photo. Look around)


http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/kimberlyfishing2ok.jpeg

Wow. Is that even possible?

Why aren't National Geographic showing these?

[Call0ps]

ROFL... "we believe the diet was based on big fish and CROCODILES!" =x damn...

[aesir]

Wow. Is that even possible?

Why aren't National Geographic showing these?

Yea man I know. I don't know wtf that snake is planning, but damn is it scary. You could be walking along down there and you'd never know wtf hit you. Freakin thing blends in perfectly with the rocks.

[timpaatkins]

Yea man, and its head is almost the same size as that donkeys(?)!

[bluefooted]

Yea man, and its head is almost the same size as that donkeys(?)!

It's a wallaby, actually, so a little smaller than that :P Still pretty damn huge snake, though.

[bhanu]

The boa constrictor-like beasts, aptly named Titanoboas, weighed more than one and a quarter tonnes and measured at least 13m long from nose to tip. At their widest, the snakes would have come up to the waist of an adult human.

wtf man.

[Asatira]

Cool stuff to hear about.

[Peter Coene]

Man, that's a big snake...
that's what she said.

[Elwell]

Made me think of this...

Elihu Vedder
Lair of the Sea Serpent
1899
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

585008

[timpaatkins]

Hmm, I wonder when the last time they had THAT baby on display was.

[Straight Edge Ryan]

If there is a god, I would like to thank him for making sure that things like that were dead long before humans existed

[daestwen]

Straight Edge Ryan: Well, if you listen to the video, you'll hear that they believe the snake could get that big based on the average temperature, and that was only 5 degrees higher than it is now...

Just wait till global warming kicks in. :P

[Elwell]

Hmm, I wonder when the last time they had THAT baby on display was.
It's in the American Wing, so it might be in the open storage galleries they have available during the renovation.
(We now return you to your science thread, already in progress...)

[Straight Edge Ryan]

Straight Edge Ryan: Well, if you listen to the video, you'll hear that they believe the snake could get that big based on the average temperature, and that was only 5 degrees higher than it is now...

Just wait till global warming kicks in. :P

Well damn...hopefully that doesn't apply to sharks as well cause a megalodon could have swallowed jaws

[Psychotime]

Well damn...hopefully that doesn't apply to sharks as well cause a megalodon could have swallowed jaws

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Megalodon_scale1.png

Wow.