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It was the mother of all snakes, a behemoth as long as a school bus and as heavy as a Volkswagen Beetle, that ruled the Amazon rainforest for 2 million years. Now this monster has resurfaced in fossils taken from an open-pit coal mine in Colombia. Modern boas and anacondas, which average less than 20 feet in length, have been known to swallow Chihuahuas, but this prehistoric monster — an estimated 43 feet — snacked on giant turtles and primitive crocodiles.
The fossils of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, as it was named, were excavated from the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia. Los Angeles Times
