This species of snake is called Titanoboa, discovered in South America, with a body length of up to 15 meters and weighing around 2,500 pounds, equivalent to nearly 1,200 kilograms.
It is considered the ruler of the ancient rainforest 60 million years ago.
This snake became the largest meat-eating animal on Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Its enormous size was influenced by the hot and humid tropical climate at that time. Fossils of Titanoboa were found in CerrejΓ³n, Colombia, and encountering them, humans would have had little chance of survival.
Titanoboa is a genus of snakes that lived around 60 to 58 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch. The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered.
By comparing the size and shape of its fossilized vertebrate with those of modern snake species, researchers estimated that T. cerrejonensis was about 13 meters long, weighed around 1,135 kilograms, and was about 1 meter wide at its thickest point on its body.
The fossils of 28 T. cerrejonensis individuals were found in coal mines at CerrejΓ³n in northern Colombia in 2009.
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