Thursday, February 5, 2009

Massive serpentine monster!

60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs, lived a relative of modern boa constrictors. He weighed over a ton, was 42 ft long, ate crocodiles, and lived in Northern South America! We found it's fossils- vertebrae from a coal mine in NE Columbia. It  happens to be the largest snake ever discovered. the existence of a large snake showed the tropic must have been hot. This is an amazing discovery!

2 comments:

Logan said...

My source is http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/science/earth/05snake.html?ref=earth&pagewanted=print

Julia said...

That is weird. Boas?