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The snake elements were described as those of a novel, giant boid snake that they named Titanoboa cerrejonensis. The genus name derives from the Greek word "Titan" in addition to Boa, the type genus of the family Boidae. The species name is a reference to the Cerrejón region it is known from.
A diagram showing the estimated lengths of Gigantophis garstini compared to other large snakes.. Jason Head, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has compared fossil Gigantophis garstini vertebrae to those of the largest modern snakes, and concluded that the extinct snake could grow from 9.3 to 10.7 m (30.5 to 35.1 ft) in length.
A close rival in size to those snakes is palaeophiid marine snake Palaeophis colossaeus, which may have been around 9 m (30 ft) in length [266] [268] [269] or even up to 12.3 m (40 ft). [270] Another known very large fossil snake is Gigantophis garstini , estimated at 9.3–10.7 m (31–35 ft) in length, [ 271 ] [ 272 ] although later study ...
A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. ... A's hire former World Series MVP Dave Stewart for a front ...
Vasuki, named after the snake king associated with the Hindu deity Shiva, rivals in size another huge prehistoric snake called Titanoboa, whose fossils were discovered in a coal mine in northern ...
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 ...
Vasuki is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snake from the Middle Eocene Naredi Formation of India. The genus contains a single species , V. indicus , known from several vertebrae . Vasuki has an estimated body length between 10.9–15.2 m (36–50 ft), making it the largest known madtsoiid.
Laophis (From Ancient Greek, stone snake) [1] is a genus of viperid snake currently containing one known species that lived during the Pliocene in Northern Greece. [2] Few fossil vertebrae of this species was found in Thessaloniki, Greece. [3]