"The 2,500-Pound Snake That Devoured Gigantic Crocodiles" Topic

"Long ago, legend has it, the god Thor and the giant Hymir rowed to sea in search of Jörmungandr, a snake so huge it circled the Earth. Thor dropped a line baited with an ox head, which Jörmungandr nommed on, and with his bare hands reeled the beast in. Once the serpent was at the edge of the boat, though, Hymir got all nervous and cut the line.

The moral of the story? I haven't the slightest clue.

But what I do know is that 60 million years ago, in the swampy waters of what is now Colombia, there lurked a serpent of similar hyperbole: titanoboa, by far the biggest snake that ever lived. At nearly 50 feet long and weighing in at 2,500 pounds, it was 10 times as heavy as the average green anaconda, a giant that now rules titanoboa's stomping grounds… or slithering grounds, I guess you'd say…"

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A trully big snake! (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

I thought this was an advert for a new SyFy Channel movie of the week!

shhhhh. they dont need any ideas

That thing is crazy large. I took my kids to see that exhibit at Univ of Nebraska- Lincoln's museum last week. The picture just doesn't do it justice for how large that thing was. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was the giant snake in the original Conan movie.

It almost makes you feel sympathetic to the poor crocodiles.