Titanoboa cerrejonensis

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Titanoboa cerrejonensis sounds like something out of Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Age:

Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.


“This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus,” enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find.

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