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The longest venomous snake is the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), with lengths (recorded in captivity) of up to 5.7 m (19 ft) and a weight of up to 12.7 kg (28 lb). [53] It is also the largest elapid. The second-longest venomous snake in the world is possibly the African black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), which
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.
Van Lierde described the snake as being close to 50 feet (15 m) in length, [7] with a circumference of 1.48 feet (45 cm). [8] Van Lierde claimed it to be a dark shade of brown and green with a white coloured belly with a head measuring 3 feet (0.91 m) long and 2 feet (0.61 m) wide, and that the jaws were of a triangular shape.
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 ...
A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists is the largest to ... there are images showing just how massive the snake really is. ... (24.6 feet) and ...
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant anaconda, emerald anaconda, common anaconda, common water boa, or southern green anaconda, is a semi-aquatic boa species found in South America and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is the largest, heaviest, and second longest snake in the world, after the reticulated python.
A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. ... (42.7 feet) from nose to tail tip. Snake size and the ...