For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application Search. Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online. These measurements dwarf those of both the reticulated python, the world’s longest living species of snake, and the anaconda, the world’s heaviest living species of snake. The fossils revealed that the aptly-named Titanoboa, which lived 58-60 million years ago during the Palaeocene Epoch, reached a maximum length of 12-15 m, measured approximately 1 m across at the thickest portion of its body, and weighed roughly 1135 kg. Their discovery had been made by an international scientific expedition led by Florida University vertebrate palaeontologist Dr Jonathan Bloch and was formally announced in early 2009. It was artwork.įor further reading, in 2015, we reported on another supposed giant snake skeleton that was on display in Australia.The largest snake ever known to have lived is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a prehistoric species of boa known from the fossils of 28 specimens found in the coal mines of Cerrejón, in La Guajira, Colombia. In sum, no, the TikTok video did not show the discovery of a giant snake skeleton off the coast of France on Google Maps. The short answer was no, because as he put it, 'the second that dinosaur blood gets into the mosquito's stomach, the digestive acids break up the DNA completely.' He also added: 'DNA degrades after about 50,000 years, and dinosaurs are millions and millions of years old.' On a completely different yet also interesting topic, Hastings was asked if the plot from ' Jurassic Park' could ever actually happen. Sidebar: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life? It's the biggest by far in terms of both length and mass. It was about 42 feet (12.8 meters) long and weighed 1.25 tons and lived 60 million years ago in South America. He said that Titanoboa was 'the largest snake that ever lived.'Īs a grad student, I was lucky enough to be one of the people who can claim at least partial discovery of Titanoboa, which is the largest snake that ever lived. In 2018, the Associated Press interviewed Alex Hastings, a paleontologist who is the paleontology collection curator at the Science Museum of Minnesota. The video briefly showed this picture from Flickr of what appeared to be another sculpture.

In the TikTok clip, the mention of Titanoboa referred to an extinct species of giant snakes.

'No climbing.' (Courtesy: giant snake skeleton known as Le Serpent d'Océan can be seen in satellite view on Google Maps.

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