The huge snake that is twice the size of today's python lived 60 million years ago, in a warm period at least five degrees above that measured today and thus could develop even though it is cold-blooded
Paleontologists have found ancient fossils of a snake that is probably the largest snake that ever lived. The monster, known as "Titanoboa" Tinanoboa Cerrejonensis and originated in South America 60 million years ago, probably weighed 1100 kilograms and was more than 12 meters long (twice the length of the contemporary anaconda snake). The fossils of the giant snake were found in coal mines in Colombia.
The titanoboa is a constrictor snake, like today's boa and anaconda snakes and it feeds on crocodiles and giant deer.
"This is the largest snake the world has known," says Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga and a member of the international team that discovered and identified the fossilized snake bones. He adds and says: "The snake's body was so thick that if it had tried to enter my office to eat me, it would have had to squeeze itself through the door..."
The previous snake that is considered the largest in the world is the Gigantophis snake, which lived 39 million years ago in Egypt and reached 11 meters in length. The size limits the blood creatures like snakes and is determined by the heat of the ground.
Hence, to grow to its enormous length, the Titanoboa needed an average annual temperature of at least 32 degrees Celsius, which is 5 degrees above the levels measured today. It seems then that in those days global warming was considered to contribute to health...
The report on the findings appears in the February 09 issue of the journal Nature.
For previous information on the subject on the science website
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Got it, amazing article.
Thanks to the major, I am currently in Italy studying :)
Thanks Oren.
In any case, I had to make room for the news about the launch of the Soyuz so that a disaster did not happen.
Ariel:
The diagnosis is interesting, but if it were up to me (and it's not up to me because the terms you presented have already been established) I would reverse the concepts to create consistency with the terms in chemistry.
An exothermic process is one that emits energy into the environment and an endothermic process absorbs energy from the environment - that is - exactly the opposite of what was decided regarding animals.
Too bad.
The last anonymous user was me… not that it really matters
Avi,
Imagine that a newspaper like Yedioth Ahronoth for example would report today "President Katsav is accused of rape!"
: )
As you said, people by nature make mistakes.. We forgive 🙂 One knowledge twice is better than one less knowledge
Sorry, I was wrong, for some reason I remembered Rami Kutika's news more, maybe because the site is updated with several news items every day, a month or something seems like an eternity....
Yeruham admits and leaves, which proves that we are also human beings...
Ami, yes:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/world%E2%80%99s-largest-snake-100209/
The use of the folk terminology "cold-blooded" is wrong. But I don't have another short enough term. Perhaps "exothermic" to emphasize their dependence on providing direct energy to raise their body temperature, as opposed to "endothermic" who use energy in food to raise and maintain their body temperature.
as per - http://www1.snunit.k12.il/heb_journals/allon/129016.html
It appears on the Science blog as fresh news.
In the original news it says that it is more than 43 feet long which is more than 14 meters (probably almost 15 meters).
Tel...
Wasn't this article already there?
This snake was naked in its cunning