TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE

TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE

It is the biggest snake to have ever roamed the planet. Titanoboa is 48’ long, dates to the Paleocene epoch more than 60 million years ago.  The life-size replica of Titanoboa is going on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Smithsonian Channel premieres a new documentary, TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE, which takes an in-depth look at the process of discovery and reconstruction of this prehistoric giant snake. The startling discovery of Titanoboa was made by a team of scientists working in one of the world’s largest open-pit coal mines at Cerrejon in La Guajira, Colombia.  This 2,500 pound, 48 foot long prehistoric snake was found near fossilized plants, giant turtles and crocodiles dating back to the Paleocene epoch. This was when the world’s first known rainforest existed, and dinosaurs no longer ruled the earth.

Titanoboa lived approximately 60 million years ago and was the largest animal in an ecosystem that included eight-foot turtles and 15-foot crocodiles. Conditions significantly warmer than ours today were ideal for such large cold-blooded creatures. 

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