The 45 foot long monster - named Titanoboa - was so big that it lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles, squeezing them to death and devouring them whole.
Weighing an impressive 1.25 tons, it slithered around the tropical forests of South America 60 million years ago, just five million years after the last dinosaurs were wiped out.
Partial skeletons of the boa constrictor-like prehistoric killer were found in an Colombian coal mine by an international team of fossil hunters.
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Gigantic 45ft snake that weighed as much as a car found by fossil hunters
Feb 04 -- A killer snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a horse, has been discovered by scientists in the open Colombian Coal mine El Cerrejón.
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David Derbyshire
3 de febrero de 2009 a las 7:00 p. m.