Posted on 02/04/2009 8:54:31 AM PST by NCDragon
NEW YORK — Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world.
Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.
"This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus," enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find.
"It could easily eat something the size of a cow. A human would just be toast immediately."
"If it tried to enter my office to eat me, it would have a hard time squeezing through the door," reckoned paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga.
Actually, the beast probably munched on ancient relatives of crocodiles in its rainforest home some 58 million to 60 million years ago, he said.
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How big was that ark? This snake was long gone before the Garden of Eden.
I actually for a second had that picture in my mind,funny!!!
Uh, no.
The idiots still tried to inject some comment about “global warming” being something we are doing.
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Snakes don’t breath through their skins. They have lungs just like us, although some of them only have one LARGE elongated lung.
That is simply not true.
Yes there are literal and figurative snakes alive today. But NOT of this species...
Define “kind” as used in the context of Noah. You are a font of misinformation.
“This snake was long gone before the Garden of Eden. “
Precisely.
In the article, paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga noted “A snake’s size is related to how warm its environment is.”
Oh really??? Prove it professor. Put a snake in a hot enclosure and make it grow.
I noticed the same thing. I also notice on many web-sites that have pre-historic information also list the temperatures/climates and atmospheric make-up, often significantly different than today or even in recent history.
Most often the temps and humidity are stated to have been much higher and the CO2, as well as other greenhouse gasses, was considerably higher as well.
Gee, and all that plant and animal life was thriving then.
Ping!
SOME snakes breathe partially through their skin.
don’t take the first result in google for
do snakes breathe through their skin
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080129072104AAC7qit
which says they all do!
Sounds like a graboid to me....
“Define “kind” as used in the context of Noah”
Not my job to do that. It’s the Bible that uses the term kind. The study of kinds is known as Baraminology.
If Noah took two of everything that is alive today, considering where he lived, where did he get a bear, moose, cougar, caribou, raccoon, just to name a few critters indigenous to the western hemisphere?
I thought you were defining “kind” as being a superspecies classification.
It would seem to me that “kind” is sort of a loose term.
While I believe in the Bible and Noah and the flood, it stretches logic to think that one boat no matter how big could POSSIBLY hold two of every “kind” of animal on earth.
It would seem to me that the Biblical flood was probably a great flood which was of local magnitude only and the “kinds” of creatures really taken onto it were domestic animals. But that is merely my interpretation.
Hey, even James Carville’s gotta have ancestors.
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