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  • proper noun An extinct genus of large carnivorous anacondas.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The extinct giant snake, called Titanoboa (shown in an artist's reconstruction), would have sent even Hollywood's anacondas slithering away.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • 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.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The remains have led experts to believe the 'Titanoboa' was a type of boa constrictor snake

    ITN Headlines 2009

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