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Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
WRALNews.com ^ | February 4, 2009 | MALCOLM RITTER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cerrejon; coalmine; colombia; fossilizedforest; godsgravesglyphs; titanoboa
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Noah was only require to house two of every KIND dude. 2 snakes. Not 2 of what people randomly define as “species”.

How big was that ark? This snake was long gone before the Garden of Eden.

21 posted on 02/04/2009 9:12:28 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Nervous Tick

I actually for a second had that picture in my mind,funny!!!


22 posted on 02/04/2009 9:16:22 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
snakes breathe through their skin.

Uh, no.

23 posted on 02/04/2009 9:16:53 AM PST by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: a real Sheila

The idiots still tried to inject some comment about “global warming” being something we are doing.


24 posted on 02/04/2009 9:18:35 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

?????????????

Snakes don’t breath through their skins. They have lungs just like us, although some of them only have one LARGE elongated lung.


25 posted on 02/04/2009 9:19:30 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

That is simply not true.


26 posted on 02/04/2009 9:20:28 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: MrB
Hmmm.. is it my mistake, or do we sometimes find live snakes today...?

Yes there are literal and figurative snakes alive today. But NOT of this species...

27 posted on 02/04/2009 9:20:45 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Define “kind” as used in the context of Noah. You are a font of misinformation.


28 posted on 02/04/2009 9:21:27 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Just mythoughts

“This snake was long gone before the Garden of Eden. “

Precisely.


29 posted on 02/04/2009 9:22:07 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: NCDragon

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.


30 posted on 02/04/2009 9:24:31 AM PST by UglyinLA
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To: NCDragon
17 foot Anaconda spine and one from a Titanoboa cerrejonensis.


31 posted on 02/04/2009 9:24:39 AM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: a real Sheila
DId anyone else notice how the article mentioned that the earth was once significantly WARMER than it is now?
HOW COULD THAT BE?
Did they have cars spewing greenhouse gases?

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.

32 posted on 02/04/2009 9:27:27 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: American72

Ping!


33 posted on 02/04/2009 9:28:33 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Flycatcher

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!


34 posted on 02/04/2009 9:29:33 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Diogenesis
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Sounds like a graboid to me....

35 posted on 02/04/2009 9:29:41 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: ZULU

“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.


36 posted on 02/04/2009 9:32:56 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: NCDragon
I know I've had my doubters, but I've always contended that since the earth was inhabited by Giant Dinosaurs and their Giant Poop, that there were Giant Worms which ate the Giant Poop and took out the nutrients and left what we call "soil" or "dirt." Now with the discovery of the Giant Snake, my contention may be correct.

But is it Obama's Fault or Bush's?


37 posted on 02/04/2009 9:33:12 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. JPII)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

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?


38 posted on 02/04/2009 9:33:43 AM PST by bneal
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

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.


39 posted on 02/04/2009 9:36:31 AM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: NCDragon

Hey, even James Carville’s gotta have ancestors.


40 posted on 02/04/2009 9:38:45 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Democrats: "Let's tear down the Washington Monument!" - GOP response: "Let's do it in 3 phases.")
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