[NCDragon]

Quick! Get the DNA to Michael Jackson, here is his new "Cuddles"!

[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?

[martin_fierro]

Big-a55 5nake Ping.

[Dustbunny]

Wow !!!!

[bmwcyle]

Think Rosie O’Donald as bait.

[UglyinLA]

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.

[Diogenesis]

17 foot Anaconda spine and one from a Titanoboa cerrejonensis.

[BnBlFlag]

Ping!

[HighlyOpinionated]

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?

[EternalVigilance]

Hey, even James Carville’s gotta have ancestors.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

2 more missing links.

[BBell]

ping

[wildbill]

Warmer then than now? Of course, but like a good PC Gore-nut, he says:

“It’s a leap” to apply the conditions of the past to modern climate change, Head said. But given that, the finding still has “some potentially scary implications for what we’re doing to the climate today,” he said.

Oooooohh. I get it. If we don’t appease the new Gore-nuts by fixing global worming, we’re gonna be up to our asses in giant snakes.

[ApplegateRanch]

Clone it! It would solve NYC’s gators in the sewers problem!

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

... the beast probably munched on ancient relatives of crocodiles in its rainforest home some 58 million to 60 million years ago...

BOLLOCKS!!! it’s just a big anaconda or python. Any of which can still grow that large today if they live long enough.

[Thombo2]

Wow!That’s impressive.I guess i’d be the equivalent of a “light snack” for a boehemouth like that-then again maybe i wouldn’t be worth the effort:)

[Miles the Slasher]

Big snake.

Suetonius, in his “The Twelves Caesars”, mentions that Augustus use to put on display ‘strange or remarkable’ animals. One of these was a serpent he put on display in front of the Comitium.

In Robert Graves translation (revised by Michael Grant), the passage in question says the serpent was “90 feet” long. In an online available translation of Suetonius, the serpent is described as being “50 cubits” in length (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.)

Googling the Roman cubit, one site indicated the Roman cubit is equivalent to 18 inches. This would still put the serpent at 75 feet in length.

I can’t attest to the accuracy of either translation...but it sounds like a large snake.

[Popman]

Btw your link is dead......