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Huge Snakes From the Past



snake1.jpgResearchers who were excavating what was once a coal mine in South America have found several fossil remains.. one of which seems to be the leftovers of the King Kong of snakes..

The reptilian remnant from the past shows himself to have been as long as a school bus and as tall and round as a Volkswagen car..

According to the LA TImes, the animal would have been about 43 feet, just about the same as a TRex, and would have weighed in at several tons, standing as tall as a man’s waist. “This is amazing. It challenges everything we know about how big a snake can be,” said herpetologist Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was not involved in the research.

“Paleontologists are excited about the find because there are few fossils of tropical vertebrates from the 10-million-year period after the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.”

 

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