MEANWHILE, 60 MILLION YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A SNAKE LARGER THAN A BUS
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[quote]paleontology
Slithering in at 48 feet long and weighing an estimated one-and-a-half tons, the largest snake the world has ever seen is being brought back to life. Sixty million years ago, in the mysterious era after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, scientists believe that a colossal snake related to modern boa constrictors ruled a lost world. With exclusive access to what one scientist called “a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,” Smithsonian Channel(TM) will tell the extraordinary true story in TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE, a two-hour special premiering Sunday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The startling discovery of Titanoboa was made by a team of scientists working in one of the world’s largest open-pit coal mines at Cerrejon in La Guajira, Colombia. It is a snake that dwarfs the largest anaconda found today, and it has the size and character to challenge T-Rex in the public’s imagination.[/quote]
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I'm glad we aren't 60 million years back in time then, I hate snakes so much.
The entire animal kingdom of earth basically turned into a giant bag of pussies compared to what was living there 60 million years ago.
Thank mother nature for that.
my grandmother has a [i]really[/i] bad fear of snakes
if she read this she would have a heart attack
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;35371140]The entire animal kingdom of earth basically turned into a giant bag of pussies compared to what was living there 60 million years ago.
Thank mother nature for that.[/QUOTE]
Believe it or not, the general decrease in size has generally made life more capable of surviving.
[img]http://www.hmnh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/titanoboatype.jpg[/img]
The small one is an [I]Anaconda[/I] vertabra
what if it was just a terrible april fools joke and they have a really bad fake snake slithering around eating people??
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;35371140]The entire animal kingdom of earth basically turned into a giant bag of pussies compared to what was living there 60 million years ago.
Thank mother nature for that.[/QUOTE]
More like thank evolution for that.
[QUOTE=archangel125;35371157]Believe it or not, the general decrease in size has generally made life more capable of surviving.[/QUOTE]
Hence why small mammals survived what the dinosaurs couldn't go through.
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[QUOTE=codemaster85;35371192]More like thank evolution for that.[/QUOTE]
Mother nature = nature as a whole = evolution
:v:
Animals shrunk in size as the oxygen levels in the atmosphere lowered over the millions of years..
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;35371222]
Mother nature = nature as a whole = evolution
:v:[/QUOTE]
Some people completely forget the meaning of evolution and take it as a deity.
Evolution - One of the natural principles of the universe. (and of "mother nature")
I hate/am terrified of slithering things, thank god it's extinct.
-why can't I read deeper past the first paragraph in a science book-
60 million years back we don't have moon, rate me as you wish but that's true
[QUOTE=FluD;35372006]60 million years back we don't have moon, rate me as you wish but that's true[/QUOTE]
wait did you just say we didn't have the moon 60 million years ago
[QUOTE=Maruhai;35371869]Oh no, they found about my penis.[/QUOTE]
It must suck, being penisless.
[QUOTE=FluD;35372006]60 million years back we don't have moon, rate me as you wish but that's true[/QUOTE]
What are you talking about? Our moon's been around just about as long as Earth has.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;35372014]wait did you just say we didn't have the moon 60 million years ago[/QUOTE]
There were no cows 60 million year ago, how could there be a moon if no cheese could be made?
[QUOTE=FluD;35372006]60 million years back we don't have moon, rate me as you wish but that's true[/QUOTE]
much longer than that lol
[QUOTE=TAU!;35372055]What are you talking about? Our moon's been around just about as long as Earth has.[/QUOTE]
There is a theory that supposes that the moon is actually a chunk of Earth that was blown off by a Mars-sized meteor, so the Earth might have been around a bit longer than Earth has, although of course it might not have gone like that.
The 'Mars-sized meteor crashing into Earth and blowing a chunk off of it' also happened farther back than 60 million years. More like a billion and some. Can't remember the specifics.
A snake larger than a bus? COME AT ME BRO!
A spider smaller than a superball? NOPENOPENOPE
On the other hand, it must've been amazing.
[QUOTE=Repulsion;35372131]There is a theory that supposes that the moon is actually a chunk of Earth that was blown off by a Mars-sized meteor, so the Earth might have been around a bit longer than Earth has, although of course it might not have gone like that.
The 'Mars-sized meteor crashing into Earth and blowing a chunk off of it' also happened farther back than 60 million years. More like a billion and some. Can't remember the specifics.[/QUOTE]
no
earth and some other planet collided, earth basically "won" and the other planet lost a gigantic portion of its mass and eventually drifted off and gathered the debris
[QUOTE=Repulsion;35372131]There is a theory that supposes that the moon is actually a chunk of Earth that was blown off by a Mars-sized meteor, so the Earth might have been around a bit longer than Earth has, although of course it might not have gone like that.
The 'Mars-sized meteor crashing into Earth and blowing a chunk off of it' also happened farther back than 60 million years. More like a billion and some. Can't remember the specifics.[/QUOTE]
4.5 billion give or take a few million. Small planetoid hit the Earth, blew off a sizable chunk of the still forming planet (and was itself blown apart), the ejecta created a ring around the planet and whatever didn't crash back down coalesced into the Moon.
fucking basilisks, man
Creepy to think we might - eventually - discover a planet that's still full of creatures as large. Heck, different living conditions might even allow for greater sizes. Our Oceans are still full of huge and ancient animals.
[QUOTE=FluD;35372006]60 million years back we don't have moon, rate me as you wish but that's true[/QUOTE]
60 Million Years ago, YOU we're not around to know what you are talking about.
60 Million Years is a very short time as far as the universe is concerned.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;35372174]4.5 billion give or take a few million. Small planetoid hit the Earth, blew off a sizable chunk of the still forming planet (and was itself blown apart), the ejecta created a ring around the planet and whatever didn't crash back down coalesced into the Moon.[/QUOTE]
And that was before there was any life on the planet, in fact iirc the surface was still molten.
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