'Titanoboa cerrejonensis', the largest prehistoric snake discovered in Colombia

ZUMA Press Inc - 1100 days ago
'Titanoboa cerrejonensis', the largest prehistoric snake discovered in Colombia
Image released by Jason Head of Toronto Mississauga University, Canada, on 04 February 2009 shows a python creeping over a vertebra of a 'Titanoboa cerrejonensis', the largest prehistoric snake discovered in Colombia, South America. This snake lived about 40 million years ago in Egypt and is a relative of the Boa constrictor. The Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 13 metres long and weighed 1,140 kilograms, according with Nature magazine. The finding calls into question the idea that the climate system has a 'thermostat' that regulates tropical temperatures