Fossilized Snake the size of a bus.

[baywax]

Life is varied, strange and wonderful!

PARIS (AFP) - Stunned scientists have found the fossilised remains of the world's greatest snake -- a record-busting serpent that was as long as a bus and snacked on crocodiles.


The boa-like behemoth ruled the tropical rainforests of what is now Colombia some 60 million years ago, at a time when the world was far hotter than now, they report in a study released on Wednesday.

The size of the snake's vertebrae suggest the beast weighed some 1.135 tonnes, in a range of 730 kilos (1,600 pounds) to 2.03 tonnes.

And it measured 13 metres (42.7 feet) from nose to tail, in a range of 10.64-15 metres (34.6-48.75 feet), they estimate.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090204/top_news/science_palaeontology_animals_snake_offbeat_1

 

[arildno]

In particular, such forms of life are wonderful when safely dead, and not slithering about in my vicinity.

 

[hypatia]

I whole heartedly agree arildno. The size should not surprise us, considering the worm fossils are bigger then your forearm. Its all some giant perspective.