Titanoboa Monster Snake

In a recently released special, the world’s biggest snake to ever be discovered was put under the limelight in Titanoboa: Monster Snake.

Estimated to have weighed one and a half tons and measuring some 48 feet long, the Titanoboa is believed to have been the dominant predator after the dinosaurs went extinct some sixty million years ago, with the modern boa constrictors being its present descendants.

In 2006, a movie entitled Snakes on a Train was released to audiences, with the movie’s plot essentially no different from the movie Snakes on a Plane. What made Snakes on a Train somewhat different was how its poster depicted a giant snake in the act of swallowing a train, which says something about the size of the snake featured in Snakes on a Train.

Though the Titanoboa was large, its size wasn’t exactly large enough to swallow a whole train. But its 48 feet long length and recent discovery in 2002 has made it the subject of a number of researchers’ and scientists’ interests, with many privy to its discovery looking at the Titanoboa as a worthy “challenger” against the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Dwarfing the size of today’s anacondas and pythons, the Titanoboa was first discovered by a Columbian student who happened to come by a coal mine, leading to the discovery of what is described as the first rainforest in the World.

Along with the giant snake, giant turtles and crocodiles were also discovered on-site, but it was the large size of the Titanoboa which really raked in a lot of attention, given how much it had defied the snake size conventions of the imagination.

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48 Foot Giant Titanoboa Snake Invades New York!

I have no idea how else to write the title to bring it closer to the actual humongous size of the titanoboa monster. I’m thinking, “Bus Size Giant Snake…” but even that would be an understatement given the fact that most busses are only 40 foot long. So that title would actually defeat my aim right? Point is, this is by far the biggest snake that has ever lived on this Earth!

Remember the movie, Anaconda featuring the then giant constrictor boa snakes? Yup. Those snakes that can easily eat a human being alive. Well, supersize that, put it on steroids and imagine giant crocodiles and other constrictor boas as part of its meal plan and you can come closer to the sheer size of the titanoboa. Yup! Giant crocodiles = snacks when it comes to this monster!

Titanoboa History

Titanoboa remains were uncovered in a coal mine in back in 2005. Among the discovers were Jonathan Bloach (Paleocene era specialist), Carlos Jaramillo (vertebrate paleontologist) and Jason Head (Smithsonianian Tropical Research Institute). These are the good men who came up with the “titan” + “boa” combination of titanoboa.

Titanoboa at Present

From March 22, 2012, the titanoboa is at New York courtesy of the Smithsonian institute. Luckily, it’s not there to snack on passersby since it’s only a reconstructed titanoboa for everyone’s viewing pleasure and hopefully it will catch enough attention to put more interest into science to as many people as possible. At least this is one aims of the display per Randall Kremer of the Smithsonian.

Titanoboa will also be featured in a 2 hour program come April first on the Smithsonian Channel. Naturally, it’s called “Titanoboa: Monster Snake”. You think you can think of a more fitting title? Put them to words on the comments box below!

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