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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 marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is also among the largest iguanas in the world, [78] and the largest reptile on Galapagos Islands after the Galapagos land iguana, not including turtles reaching a maximum total length of 1.4 m (4.59 ft), a SVL of from 12 till 56 cm (from 4.72 till 22 in) [82] [83] and a mass of from 1 to 12 kg (2.2 ...
Remains of the giant boid Titanoboa cerrejonensis have been found from a gray claystone layer underlying Coal Seam 90 in the Cerrejón mine. Titanoboa is the largest known snake to have ever existed, reaching an estimated length of 12.8 metres (42 ft). Eunectes, the anaconda, is likely to be a close living analogue of Titanoboa. [9]
Gigantophis is an extinct genus represented by its sole member Gigantophis garstini, a giant snake. [3] Before the Paleocene constrictor genus Titanoboa was described from Colombia in 2009, Gigantophis garstini was regarded as the largest snake ever recorded.
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 ...
The largest known prehistoric snake is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, estimated at 12.8 m (42 ft) or even 14.3 m (47 ft) [262] in length and 1,135 kg (2,502 lb) in weight, [263] and madtsoiid Vasuki indicus which is estimated to reach between 11–15 m (36–49 ft). [264]
The largest living snakes in the world, ... (344 lb); "Twinkie" found sanctuary in the 2014 Guinness World Records book ... Titanoboa and Vasuki, two of the world's ...
The Lapitiguana is the largest iguana fossils. The extant members of genus Brachylophus are iguanas small and medium-sized, growing a length of 60–75 cm (24–30 in). ). Although, in the past there was a much larger member of this family – Brachylophus gibbonsi, reached in length of 1.2 m (3.9 ft), [citation needed] and thus, was 1.8 times longer than its modern re