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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.
This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas. Precambrian [ edit ]
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
This week, encounter the largest marine reptile ever to roam the seas, see a rainbow-like phenomenon on another planet, marvel at underwater bees, and more.
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 ...
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 ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.