Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Stranger Than Fiction

Monster Snake Slithered at 43 Feet Long

A colossal snake about the length of a school bus slithered about South America's rainforests some "60 million years ago" (yeah okay), according to an analysis of the skeletal remains of what is now considered the largest snake ever identified.
"It's the biggest snake the world has ever known," said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and part of an international team who discovered and identified the snake bones.

He added, "The snake's body was so wide that if it were moving down the hall and decided to come into my office to eat me, it would literally have to squeeze through the door."

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