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Based on comparison between the undistorted Titanoboa vertebrae and the skeleton of modern boas, Head and colleagues found that the analyzed specimens fit a position towards the later half of the precloacal vertebral column, approximately 60 to 65% back from the first two neck vertebrae. Using this method, initial size estimates proposed a ...
The mine has also yielded remains of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a recently described 12.8 metres (42 ft) long extinct boid that is the largest known snake to have ever existed. [5] Like Cerrejonisuchus , fossils of Titanoboa were found in a gray claystone layer directly underlying Coal Seam 90. [ 6 ]
Unlike other large-bodied snakes like Titanoboa, [4] Vasuki was probably not an aquatic animal. Its vertebral morphology instead suggests a terrestrial (or possibly semi-aquatic) lifestyle when compared to related madtsoiids and modern pythonoids. The Vasuki fossils were deposited in a backswamp marsh. Large extant pythonids are found in ...
A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The ...
A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. 70 million-year-old giant dinosaur skeleton ...
An excavation at England’s oldest hotel revealed 24 skeletons and a mix of additional bones, dating to over 1,000 years ago, buried in the hotel garden. The Old Bell Hotel has been continuously ...
Sivapithecus (lit. ' Shiva's Ape ') (syn: Ramapithecus) is a genus of extinct apes.Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.2 million years old [1] in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Sivalik Hills of the Indian subcontinent as well as in Kutch.
Archaeologists found a tomb with 12 skeletons beneath the Treasury in Petra, Jordan. The discovery provides rare insight into the ancient Nabataeans, experts say.