Titanoboa || Largest Snake Ever

Titanoboa (Titanoboa cerrejonensis)
Temporal range: Paleocene, 60–58 Ma
Titanoboa is an extinct genus of giant boid, the family that includes all boas and anacondas, snake that lived during the middle and late Paleocene.
Titanoboa, meaning "titanic boa," is an extinct genus of snakes that is known to have lived in present-day La Guajira in northern Colombia.
Fossils of Titanoboa have been found in the Cerrejón Formation, and date to around 58 to 60 million years ago.
The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis.
Based on the size of the vertebrae, Titanoboa is the largest snake in the paleontological record.
They could grow up to 12.8 m (42 ft), perhaps even 14.3 m (47 ft) long and reach a body mass of 730–1,135 kg (1,610–2,500 lb). At its thickest, Titanoboa had a diameter of three feet.
Titanoboa Looked Like a Boa Constrictor, but hunted like a Crocodile and was twice as long as the longest snakes alive today.
Discovery of skull bones revealed that it was more than likely specialized in preying on fish, a trait unique to Titanoboa among all boids.
It shared its ecosystem with large Crocodylomorpha (includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives) and large turtles, which may have served as food for the giant snake.
The warmer climate of the Earth during the time of T. cerrejonensis allowed cold-blooded snakes to attain much larger sizes than modern snakes.
Though it's not entirely clear why the snake went extinct, the change in temperature likely played an important role.
In 2009, the fossils of 28 individuals of T. cerrejonensis were found in the Cerrejón Formation of the coal mines of Cerrejón in La Guajira, Colombia.
On 22 March 2012, a full-scale-model replica of a 14.6 m (48 ft), 1,135 kg (2,500 lb) Titanoboa was displayed in Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
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