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BIGGEST SNAKE PHOTOS: Prehistoric Giant Discovered
nationalgeographic ^ | February 4, 2009-

Posted on 02/07/2010 7:29:08 AM PST by JoeProBono

Found in a Colombian coal mine, a vertebra from a 45-foot (14-meter) Titanoboa cerrejones dwarfs a similar bone from a 17-foot (5.2-meter) anaconda--currently the world's biggest, if not longest, snake species. (View anaconda pictures and facts.)

The ancient snake's giant size suggests that mean year-round temperatures in the tropics were several degrees warmer than they are today, according to a study that analyzed the relationships among a snake's body size, its metabolism, and the outside temperature.

"We were able to use the snake, if you will, as a giant fossil thermometer," said biologist Jason Head, lead author of the new study, to be published February 5, 2009, in the journal Nature.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: cerrejon; coalmine; colombia; fossilizedforest; godsgravesglyphs; jpb; paleontology; snake; titanoboa
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To: SkyDancer; martin_fierro

ACTUAL PICTURE


21 posted on 02/07/2010 8:37:02 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Bryanw92

I guess we’re doomed from GW because the snakes will get humongous and eat us. Makes more sense than the load of crap algore is selling now.


22 posted on 02/07/2010 8:38:17 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: martin_fierro

It has to be given that disclaimer, or it would take years to scrub references to “an actual surviving photo of something supposedly dead 60 million years” from YEC websites.


23 posted on 02/07/2010 8:41:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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blast from the past:

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/


24 posted on 02/07/2010 8:42:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: JoeProBono

Trousersnakes!


25 posted on 02/07/2010 8:53:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: goat granny

26 posted on 02/07/2010 8:54:42 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: All

I’m from the South.
NONE of those snakes are as scary-looking as a 6ft Cottonmouth...


27 posted on 02/07/2010 8:57:27 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: KeyLargo

28 posted on 02/07/2010 8:58:31 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

:O( thank you for the lovely box with a little red X. I think I’ll use it for my new wallpaper....


29 posted on 02/07/2010 8:58:39 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Maverick68

30 posted on 02/07/2010 9:00:34 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Man! Snakes, chicks, guns, rocket launchers, exploding toilets, motorcycles crashing through walls — that scene’s got it all. All that’s missing is ninjas.


31 posted on 02/07/2010 9:04:38 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: JoeProBono

That’s a mean looking photo, but if you’ve ever had the chance to see that mouth in person, well....


32 posted on 02/07/2010 9:04:43 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: JoeProBono

Insert recent Greg Oden pictures...


33 posted on 02/07/2010 9:11:26 AM PST by tatown (Obama is Kenyan for "turd")
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To: goat granny
GIANT POLISH SNAKE

34 posted on 02/07/2010 9:14:49 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Photobucket
35 posted on 02/07/2010 9:18:48 AM PST by SkyDancer (But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father)
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To: Pontiac
"But aren’t the global temperatures we are experiencing now unprecedented and indicative of man’s impact on the environment?"

LOL. Imagine that.

"Whoa there Nelly! "

Hey, a little Keith Jackson lingo there. LOL.

36 posted on 02/07/2010 9:26:26 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: JoeProBono

Kielbasa, great sausage..goes well with Polish Chicken...


37 posted on 02/07/2010 9:34:47 AM PST by goat granny
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38 posted on 02/07/2010 9:36:13 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SunkenCiv

39 posted on 02/07/2010 9:43:29 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Nice bathtub.

I’ll stick with water in mine though.

40 posted on 02/07/2010 10:24:58 AM PST by Pontiac
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