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Titanoboa was first discovered in the early 2000s by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute who, along with students from the University of Florida, recovered 186 fossils of Titanoboa from La Guajira department in northeastern Colombia. It was named and described in 2009 as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever found at that time ...
The Vasuki fossils were deposited in a backswamp marsh. Large extant pythonids are found in similar habitats. [2] Vasuki is known from the Naredi Formation, which dates to the Middle Eocene. [2] Fossils of catfish, turtles, crocodilians, and early cetaceans are also known from this formation, any of which may have been the prey of Vasuki. [7]
Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.
Identified from fossils in Colombia, Titanoboa would have weighed 1,140 kilograms (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 meters (42.7 feet) from nose to tail tip. Snake size and the role of climate.
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - longer than a T. rex - that ...
A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. The newly discovered behemoth lived 47 million years ago in western India ...
Sivapithecus (lit. ' Shiva's Ape ') (syn: Ramapithecus) is a genus of extinct apes.Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.2 million years old [1] in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Sivalik Hills of the Indian subcontinent as well as in Kutch.
Together, the fossil pieces tell the story of a creature that defied all expectations based on the evolutionary paths of better-known animals from the time, which mostly lived closer to the equator.