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Titanoboa: Monster Snake is a 2012 documentary film produced by the Smithsonian Institution.The documentary treats Titanoboa, the largest snake ever found.Fossils of the snake were uncovered from the Cerrejón Formation at Cerrejón, the tenth biggest coal mine in the world in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin of La Guajira, northern Colombia, covering an area larger than Washington, D.C. [1] The ...
Louise Banks is a linguist in the science-fiction movie Arrival. Dennis Alan, played by Bill Pullman , in the film The Serpent and the Rainbow , which is based on the non-fiction novel with the same name written by Wade Davis , a real-life Harvard anthropologist who investigates zombification in Haiti, and who Pullman plays a fictionalized ...
Titanoboa could grow up to 12.8 m (42 ft) long, perhaps even up to 14.3 m (47 ft) long, and weigh around 730–1,135 kg (1,610–2,500 lb). The discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis garstini, which is known from the Eocene of Egypt.
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Fictional scientist Dr. Nils Hellstrom guides viewers throughout the film. He claims, on the basis of scientific-sounding theories, that insects will ultimately win the fight for survival on Earth because of their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly and that the human race will lose the fight largely because of excessive individualism.
The boom in great science fiction movies makes it impossible to share all the truly great ones, so we worked on a list of 20, which includes several franchises. Ahead, the best sci-fi cinema you ...
Invasion of the Star Creatures is an independently made 1962 black-and-white science fiction/comedy film, produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and Berj Hagopian, directed by Bruno VeSota, that stars Bob Ball and Frankie Ray.
Shaver's first published work, the novella "I Remember Lemuria", was the cover story in the March 1945 Amazing Stories. Richard Sharpe Shaver (October 8, 1907 – November 5, 1975) was an American writer and artist who achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily Amazing Stories).