However, a lot of people do not realize that bears possess a skeleton that make them the Tiger II tank in the animal world. There is a persistent disagreement in the hunting community of how to dispatch a bear in an emergency - there are stories of hunters, guides and rangers who are able to stop a charging bear under 20 yards with 'large game' rounds, shotguns and even handguns. The reptile dates from the Paleocene – the 10-million-year epoch following the dinosaurs' demise.Now, someone can prove me wrong but I do believe that many of today's 'dangerous game' rifle rounds would not be capable of stopping one of these in a single shot without proper surprise.For a 48-foot constrictor, killing its prey probably didn't take long – unless she was swallowing and digesting a half-ton of blunt-nosed crocodile. Titanoboa probably ate fish, turtles and crocodiles, and a single large meal might have lasted the snake for a year.They can grow to more than 29 feet and weigh over 550 pounds. The green anaconda, the world's largest modern snake, is a native of South America east of the Andes Mountains.
At 48 feet long, Titanoboa was twice as long as any snake today.The flexible spine allowed her to coil and bend in a flexible S-shape to help with swimming. Titanoboa's vertebrae were roughly the size of those found in modern whale species.
In the meantime, here are some fun facts provided by the natural history museum about a snake that's as long as a school bus and as heavy as a Mini Cooper: Guests can enjoy videos produced by the Smithsonian Channel and a photo exhibit detailing many species of snakes found in Delaware. Organized by the Smithsonian, the traveling exhibition includes two vertebrae casts made from the original fossils: a 17-foot-long modern green anaconda and the vertebra from Titanoboa. Along with unearthing fossilized vertebrae of the previously undiscovered species of snake, scientists found remnants of giant turtles and the first-known bean plant. Fossil plants and animals found at the same site point to the earliest known rainforest dating to the Paleocene, a lost world that followed the demise of the dinosaurs. 25, features a full-scale model of the ancient reptile. "Titanoboa: Monster Snake," on display from Sept.
Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at 2,500 pounds, Titanoboa, the world's largest snake, could crush and devour a crocodile.ĭiscovered in a fossil bed deep within Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine, this monster predator is the star of the latest special exhibition at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in north Wilmington.
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