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- proper noun An
extinct genus of largecarnivorous anacondas .
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Examples
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It lived alongside a giant snake known as Titanoboa, which is thought to have grown to about 13m 42ft in length.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Unfortunately for my prehistoric daydreams, the "Titanoboa" -- whose discovery was published in the journal Nature this week -- lived about 6 million years after Tyrannosaurus and the rest of its dinosaur brethren went extinct.
Scott Dodd: Can a Giant Prehistoric Snake Teach Us About Climate Change? 2009
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The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.
Livescience.com 2010
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The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.
Livescience.com 2010
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The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.
Livescience.com 2010
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The researchers, led by Jason Head of the University of Toronto, estimate the snake, called Titanoboa cerrejonensis, lived 58 million to 60 million years ago, the BBC reported Wednesday.
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The site, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines, also yielded the fossil for the giant snake known as Titanoboa, described by UF scientists earlier this year.
innovations-report 2009
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The boa-like behemoth, dubbed Titanoboa, ruled the tropical rainforests of what is now Colombia some 60 million years ago, at a time when the world was far hotter than now, they report in a study.
GREENIE WATCH 2009
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Scientists have found a 60-million-year-old fossil of the world's largest snake, a 13-meter (42-foot), one-tonne behemoth dubbed Titanoboa, in a coal mine in Colombia, the US Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute said Wednesday.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2009
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The remains have led experts to believe the 'Titanoboa' was a type of boa constrictor snake
ITN Headlines 2009
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