James Stewart
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Astrum Space · The Biggest Snake to Ever Stalk the Earth | Titanoboa | Astrum Earth · 12 May 2026
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As we head back to our search for the world's largest snake.
It was now 2007, and Alex Hastings, a then grad student at the University of Florida, was going about his now daily task of unwrapping the vast array of packages that landed on his door from Columbia.
In amongst these, he came across a single vertebra, strange looking and enormous.
Based on its size alone, it was labelled as a croc.
But Hastings knew instantly that something was different about this one.
This was not a crocodile at all.
So he showed it to his lab partner, Jason Bork, who agreed.
That's a snake, he said.
But this was not like any snake the world had ever seen.
Bork raided the university's fossil collection, pulling out the closest looking vertebra he could find, that of an anaconda.
It wasn't a perfect match, although it looked quite similar.
The only problem was the anaconda vertebra was three times smaller than the new fossil they had just received.
How could a snake be this big?
Surely it just wasn't possible.
They needed more evidence.
They sent word back to the team on the ground in Columbia that more specimens were needed, specifically of fossilized snakes.
Eventually, the team collected 100 snake vertebrae from nearly 30 individual gigantic snakes.
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