Scientists have recovered fossils from a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas seem like garter snakes. Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1,140 kilograms (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 meters (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip. A paper describing the find appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature. "At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hip." (source: nsf.gov)
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