"That means that tropical rainforests could exist at temperatures 3-4 degrees Celsius hotter than modern tropical rainforests experience," he added, alluding to scientific theories that would have tropical forests disappear if global warming boosts temperatures by that measure in the future. "This temperature estimate is much hotter than modern temperatures in tropical rainforests anywhere in the world," said Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian staff scientist and co-organizer of the excavations in Colombia. From the size of the 1.14-tonne Titanoboa, scientists have estimated the average annual temperature in the tropical jungle it inhabited 60 million years ago at 30-34 degrees Celsius (86-93 degrees Farenheit). "This shows how much more information about the history of Earth there is to glean from a resource like the reptile fossil record," said the assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. "The discovery of Titanoboa challenges our understanding of past climates and environments, as well as the biological limitations on the evolution of giant snakes," said Jason Head, member of the Panama-based research institute and lead author of the study to be published Thursday in Nature magazine. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.AFP - Scientists have found a 60-million-year-old fossil of the world's largest snake, a 13-meter (42-foot), one-tonne behemoth dubbed Titanoboa, in a coal mine in Colombia, the US Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute said Wednesday. ![]() Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here. The video is now viral, and people are enquiring about the snake to dig out more details of what could be the largest snake to ever exist. We could not determine the location of the incident. While other reports stated that the incident may have likely taken place in Malaysia. For instance, Rajya Sabha member, Parimal Nathwani, took to Twitter to share the video, and in the caption, wrote, “It took a crane to shift this python weighing 100kgs and measuring 6.1m in length, in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Many media platforms and social media users in India shared the video from the Caribbeans as a video originating from Dhanbad, Jharkhand, reported NDTV. Therefore, a medium-sized Anaconda can easily outweigh the largest python. Pythons can grow more than 30ft in length but are not as humongous as Anacondas. The only other snakes that can grow as large and long as the Anacondas are the pythons. In Fact, Anacondas are the largest snake in this species. Boa Constrictors are a species that have a wide variety of snakes differing in size.Īnacondas are also native to the Boa Species. However, the area where the huge serpent was seen is native land for the Boa Constrictor. ![]() The account shared another video where the diggers, who spotted the snake, are seen struggling to put the snake in a truck due to its enormous size and weight, reported The Sun.Īccording to reports, the identification of the snake is unclear. The video was originally shared on TikTok and was viewed by more than 8 crore people over the Internet. A video of the gigantic snake went viral on various social media platforms and instantly blew minds as netizens witnessed what can be arguably the world’s largest snake recorded on camera. The snake was so huge that the workers had to summon a crane to relocate it to safety. A group of workers, while cleaning up a patch of Dominica rainforest, spotted a massive serpent. However, a video crawling allegedly out from the Caribbeans might just take it up a notch and give chills to your spine. Creepy-crawly graphics seldom miss raising hair when seen.
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