This photo-realistic illustration shows the titanoboa with a megalodon, the largest shark in the world (now extinct).Īre There Big Snakes Getting Big Like this Today? Megalodon und Titanoboa - Illustration: Michael Rosskothen/Shutterstock After all, you could hardly call this snake a “dwarf boa”. Titans were giant gods in Greek mythology. Where Does the Name Titanoboa Come From?īoa is a word used for snakes in the boidae family. They think the average annual temperature was between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 and 35 degrees Celsius). Scientists believe that snakes’ body sizes directly depend on the temperature. It must have been considerably warmer there at that time - 60 million years ago. Almost all vertebraeand 184 other spine/rib bones were dug out of the tunnel. The fossil was found in South America, in a coal mine in Columbia. Scientists believe that it lived in a similar way to the anaconda that now lives in South America. With these measurements, it is the largest, longest and heaviest snake in the history of the world - even if it’s been dead for a while.

Titanoboa and Albertaceratops - Illustration: Michael Rosskothen/Shutterstock Lifestyle of Titanoboa and Anaconda Quite Similar An albertaceratops is standing next to the titanoboa. As there were no cameras back then, there are - of course - no photos. This photo-realistic illustration shows how the titanoboa might have actually looked. This animal was an impressive 45 feet (14 meters) long and weighed around 1.25 tons. As the metabolism of “cold-blooded” reptiles like snakes is directly related to the temperature of their surroundings, they were able to get incredibly big. It was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) warmer than it is today.

The giant “titanoboa” lived just after the dinosaurs died out, around 60 million years ago. The Titanoboa Was the Biggest Snake in the World It was as big as a school bus and as heavy as a small car. Scientists found the skeleton of the biggest snake in the world in Columbia.

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