Titanoboa in Podcasts
personA prehistoric giant snake known for its enormous size and habitat in South American swamps.
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The same concept applies to other reptiles too, explaining the turtle shells the size of snooker tables and humongous crocs, the very things Titanoboa would eat for breakfast.
The team estimated that to grow to this size, Titanoboa must have lived in an extremely warm climate, a far warmer ambient average than we see today, with year-round temperatures between 30 and 34 degrees Celsius with no let-up.
Titanoboa was not an accident.
Why was Titanoboa so much larger than any snake alive?
Titanoboa's size also raised bigger questions that stretched far beyond its anatomy.
Titanoboa may have been the only boid of its kind, a supersized fish-hunting serpent unlike anything else we've ever seen.
All of that evidence points to a semi-aquatic lifestyle for Titanoboa, with behaviour more like today's water-dwelling anaconda than a boa constrictor.
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