Giant Ancient Snake Found In India Could Have Been As Long As A T. Rex
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Giant 50-Foot Snake Found in India. Upside: It's Extinct.
If you, like Indiana Jones, have a thing about snakes, add western India alongside the Amazon basin on the list of places you don't want to go. Of course, we're talking about the western India of about 47 million years ago, where a snake around 50 feet long and weighing in at nearly a ton lived in the forests and rivers. That weight, of course, is an estimate, as at the time the snake lived, there were no
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Giant extinct snake discovered in India was 50 feet long, said researchers
New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This is up to eight feet longer than the largest snake known to man and nearly 17 feet longer than the current largest living snake, the Associated Press reported this week. The snake weighed up to a ton, researchers said in a Scientific Reports article published on April 18. LEGEND OR REAL? HERE...
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New rock art discoveries in Eastern Sudan tell a tale of ancient cattle, the 'green Sahara' and climate catastrophe
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