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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.
Another Cryodrakon specimen from Dinosaur Provincial Park has tooth marks and an embedded tooth from the meat-eating dinosaur Saurornitholestes. The bone of a Cryodrakon relative was found in the ...
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 plant-eating dicynodont Lisowicia bojani is the largest-known of all non-mammalian synapsids, at about 4.5 m (15 ft) long, 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) tall, and 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) in body mass. [11] [12] [13] However, in 2019 its weight was later more reliably estimated by modelling its mass from the estimated total volume of its body. These ...
Dinosaur National Monument . Utah and Colorado. Yiran Jia. ... Short-faced bears were among the largest meat-eating mammals that ever lived. When they reared up on their hind legs, they would have ...
An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a horrific mass extinction. New research that relied heavily on fossilized feces and vomit - evidence of who is eating what and who is ...
Giganotosaurus (/ ˌ ɡ ɪ ɡ ə ˌ n oʊ t ə ˈ s ɔː r ə s / GIG-ə-NOH-tə-SOR-əs [2]) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago.
The mammal in the fossil duo is the meat-eating Repenomamus robustus, about the size of a house cat, Mallon said. The dinosaur — Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis — was about as big as a medium ...