TITANOBOA,KING OF THE WORLD

A WORLD,RULED BY A SNAKE

A lost world of giants,60 million years old, ruled by a slithering reptile. In December 2002 in Columbia, a fossil vertebrate was let from the ground. It was the biggest snake’s vertebrate of all time. Even bigger than a vertebrate from a Egypt snake,the Gigantophis a 11m. snake that hunts 46 million years ago the swamps of Egypt in primitive elephants. But the size of this vertebrate from Columbia was double than the Egyptian king, this was sure the largest snake that have ever lived.It’s DNA was same with a Python’s one,so scientist called this snake Titanoboa.10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs it’s one of the Earth’s most mysterious periods in her history,it’s called Paleocene epoch.S.America was ruled by Titanoboa,the other continents  were ruled by 3metres tall birds.Titanoboa was 15m. long and dosen’t needs poisonous venom to kill,it killed by constriction and with sharp teeth thrashing by it’s jaws it ate crocodiles whole and with complex lungs it can live to land and water.They give birth in to live young out of the water and they are probably 100 eggs inside the mothers,youngs are over 1m in length,like some modern adult snakes. The snake’s mouth open over 90 destinies and then,splitting a part,so the mouths are so open it can easily swallowed an alligator whole.At 3 tonnes Titanoboa was the largest snake ever.But the difficult part was the digestive of it’s prey.Asset filled it’s stomach and melt 0,5 tonnes of flesh,bones and skin of the alligator.They couldn’t ate turtles.For Titanoboa this is a long process,so an alligator could be the only meal [of a snake this size] a year.But why Titanoboa get so big?The answer is because the snakes are cold-blooded creatures,and when you are cold-blooded you grow by the temperature around you and in S.America 60 million years ago the climate was very warmer and tropic.But despite it’s success Titanoboa disappeared by global cooling.But we know that Titanoboa existed and lived on our planet as the biggest snake ever.