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Titanoboa

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  • #62
    Adam Khor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned before. Perhaps the tooth marks were only spotted after they had started making the documentary so could not shift the focus ubder such short notice.

    Yeah, and like I said, it was Titanoboa's show XD

    Speaking of the croc, here's a site: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17544885 in which the scientist mentions that they found (in Cerrejón) not only Titanoboa and giant turtles, but "the largest crocodiles in the fossil record" which I guess refers to the croc from the show. It certainly looked huge but still, that claim is impressive if we consider how huge Deinosuchus, Purussaurus, Sarcosuchus and company grew up :O


  • #63
    cruizer101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    Watching it now on 4OD, its a BIG snake :eek:

    Surpirsed its up already its normally a day before things go up, available for next 30 days if anyone else missed it and wants to see.
    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-largest-snake/4od#3334341


  • #64
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Speaking of the croc, here's a site: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17544885 in which the scientist mentions that they found (in Cerrejón) not only Titanoboa and giant turtles, but "the largest crocodiles in the fossil record" which I guess refers to the croc from the show. It certainly looked huge but still, that claim is impressive if we consider how huge Deinosuchus, Purussaurus, Sarcosuchus and company grew up :O

    Hmm, I'll take the 'biggest' claims with a pinch of salt. There are some epically huge crocs on the fossil record. It'd take something special to dislodge them/


  • #65
    Adam Khor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    So, since we already had a thread about Titanoboa almost as long as the snake itself, I didn´t want to start a new one :B

    Seems a new study will be published soon about this beauty, and its very different to what we expected. Far from eating giant crocodiles and turtles, it is very possible that it was feeding mostly on fish, as suggested by new remains including parts of the skull and teeth that are very similar to those of specialized fish-eating snakes nowadays.
    The fact that large fish such as lungfish and arowana/arapaima relatives have been found in the same sites suggests that it was probably not so much a giant anaconda or blood python kind of thing, like we speculated here, but more like a tentacled snake or an elephant-trunk snake- that is, a highly aquatic (maybe completely so? I hope they address this in the paper) piscivorous snake.

    The study also suggests a lenght of about 14.3 meters for Titanoboa, with a skull about 40 cms long, and it was apparently more closely related to Madagascan and Pacific island boas than to anacondas or other New World boids.

    Thought you'd like to know :B


  • #66
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Well zog it anyway! Better ad that to the list.


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  • #67
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    You compare it to Hydracos then? LOL LOL

    Sorry*


  • #68
    Josip007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 50 ✭✭Josip007


    Damn, Titanoboa was huge.Wouldn't like to see one in person tbh :D


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