BIGGEST SNAKE PHOTOS: Prehistoric Giant Discovered

nationalgeographic ^ | February 4, 2009-

[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.

[JoeProBono]

ACTUAL PICTURE

[Kirkwood]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

blast from the past:

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

[SunkenCiv]

Trousersnakes!

[JoeProBono]

[Maverick68]

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

[JoeProBono]

[goat granny]

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

[JoeProBono]

[Yardstick]

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

[Maverick68]

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

[tatown]

Insert recent Greg Oden pictures...

[JoeProBono]

GIANT POLISH SNAKE

[SkyDancer]

[steelyourfaith]

"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.

[goat granny]

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

[Lancey Howard]

[JoeProBono]

[Pontiac]

Nice bathtub.

I’ll stick with water in mine though.