Largest Snake on Earth Uncovered

Sliding Easy: An artists conception of the snake in its natural habitat, 60 million years ago.  Jason Bourque/University of Florida Any character in a B-list film would yelp "Snake? Snaaaake!" upon spotting a specimen stretching longer than a school bus – and now scientists have uncovered the remains of such a beast. A research team found the vertebrae of the 43-foot long snake down the Cerrejon Coal Mine in northern Colombia. Their report appears in Nature this week, and gives a conservative estimate that the snake weighed 2,500 pounds when it lived 60 million years ago. read more

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