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I am convinced that anyone can be helped and even healed by the power of loving-kindness, called metta, or maitri, in Buddhism. Because of my background as a science writer and editor, I bring the eyes of science as well as the eyes of love to what I write about. It really gives an idea of how massive and heavy these big snakes are:Īt the other end of the scale, you also might want to take a look at this later post of mine-it not only highlights the smallest snake in the world, but the smallest lizard and frog too!īiologist Discovers world’s smallest snake, lizard, and frog!Īt this blog, I celebrate the natural beauty of Berkeley and its local environs-the landscape, the climate, the weather, the animals, plants, the geology, and the ecosystem of the Berkeley Hills area. This video at Vimeo shows the installation of a beautiful 20 foot python at the Little Rock, Arkansas, Zoo. (about the problem of Burmese Pythons introduced into South Florida’s ecosystem) If you are interested in learning more about large constrictors, here are some links I thought were especially informative and interesting: Read more about this amazing fossil discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonesis at: In any event, the sketch of the purported beast gives one an idea of how large the actual prehistoric snake would have been, so I offer it here for your entertainment: Myself, I think the story was either a fabrication, or the size of a very large snake was grossly overestimated. Scientists ridiculed Fawcett’s claim, but some cryptozoologists came to his defense. However, I did find an old drawing of an enormous anaconda that adventurer named Percy Fawcett claimed to have killed during his 1906 expedition in Bolivia. I wanted to find some photo or illustration to give readers a better sense of the size of such a snake, but alas, there didn’t seem to be any available. No human and few animals living today would have survived the crushing attack of this gigantic constrictor. The biggest modern snakes, reticulated pythons and green anacondas, are known to consume wild pigs, impala, gazelles, and even leopards and jaguars. Given the power of today’s largest snakes, Titanoboa cerrejonesis must have been a formidable predator able to take huge prey. We are talking about a creature that’s longer than a school bus and that weighed as much an Austin MiniCooper car!

Titanoboa cerrejonesis was the longest, largest, heaviest snake that ever lived.

The vertebrae of titanoboa were found in a large coal mine in northeastern Colombia, an area the researchers report is the oldest-known rainforest in the Americas.“Fossils found in northeastern Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine indicate the reptile…was at least 42 feet (13 meters) long and weighed 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms).” Titanoboa is a relative of the modern-day anaconda, a non-venomous snake inhabiting freshwater rivers in Central and South America and preying on carnivores it crushes with powerful muscles. The study says titanoboa (it means "titanic boa") was the largest non-marine vertebrate from the epoch following the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and "greatly exceeds the largest verifiable body lengths" of the largest-known python (29.53 feet) or Eunectes, a species of which the anaconda is a member (22.97 feet). By studying fossilized sections of the remains, scientists were able to estimate the size of the crocodile-consuming boa. Scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of the largest snake ever discovered: a 42-foot behemoth weighing more than a ton, according to an analysis in today's issue of the journal Nature. — - Indiana Jones, take heart: A snake on the loose 58 million years ago would help anyone understand your phobia.