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  • The Concrete Tomb of Hradzka - APED: "titanoboa pop song"

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  • Secondly, using the measurements of the titanoboa, the scientists were able to draw conclusions about the environment in South America 60 million years ago.

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  • First, fossils in tropical forests are extremely rare due to the lack of bare rock: the snake, christened titanoboa, was found in a coal mine.

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  • Considering the titanoboa was twice the size of today's largest snake, the anaconda, the scientists estimated that the average temperature of its ecosystem would have been about 91 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 degrees warmer than the tropical forests which cover South America today.

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  • After the extinction of the dinosaurs, it appears that the titanoboa became one of the region's super-predators.

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  • Nearby the snake fossils, the researchers found skeletons of giant turtles and primitive crocodile-like reptiles that the scientists believe may have been prey for the titanoboa.

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  • To estimate the length and weight of the titanoboa based on the fossilized vertebrae, the researchers called in Jason Head, a specialist on fossilized snakes at the University of Toronto and David Polly, a paleontologist at the University of Indiana.

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