URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090...ws.2009.80.html

Summary: largest. snake. evar!

More detailed summary: Fossil of a snake estimated at 12.8m in length, weighing 1,135kg dating from the mid-Paleocene, about 58-60mya. For those of you metric-impaired, that amounts to about 42ft in length, and about 1+1/4 short tons in weight. The name is aptly appliled: Titanoboa cerrejonensis, or 'titanic boa from Cerrejon' (Cerrejon, Columbia, where the fossils were found).

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