How cool is that?!
I can’t wait to work this, “snake palaeothermometry”, into a conversation. Yet how that might happen seamlessly I haven’t a clue.
{{shudder}} Thanks for that. I think. {{shudder}} It is fascinating! {{shudder}}
twitches
I predict this will be a movie fairly soon.
This is what I don’t understand. I the snake were 42 feet long and as wide-thick as the pics & description indicate it would have to weigh several tons not a mere 2500 lbs.
“I’ve had it with these MFing snakes in this MFing museum!!!” 
I appreciate the level-headed tone of the BBC story. Here in the US, the headline reads, “Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!”
Snakes On A Jumbo Jet
Nobody’s made the huge penis joke yet?
I guess “don’t have a cow” is inappropriate for this beastie.
Todd from Scrubs will be by shortly.
(heh, he said 'shortly")
42 foot long, only 2500 lbs?
Scientist have FINALLY proven that ancient claim.
That snake wasnt FAT, it was just big boned 
" I am tired of these Mother***%^$&* planes on these Mother**%*(# snakes !! “”
:eek:
E.T.A.: Damn you, Hal !!
I’m having trouble with those dimensions, too. “Up to your hips” is ambiguous, but let’s work with it a sec. I just measured in my bare feet. From the ground to the point of my hip bone is 44". I’m a big guy (6’4" tall), so let’s scale that. a 5’8" person is 89% of my height, so if the proportions are the same, that would be a bit over 39" to the hipbone.
That’s about an inch of thickness for each foot of “height” on the snake: the equivalent of a four foot snake being four inches high at its thickest point. I’ve handled a lot of snakes, but I’ve never encountered one with that kind of dimensions (unless it just ate).
This story is AWESOME
Big friggen snakes…hoo ha!
I liked the bit in the article where they diss those puny little green anacondas that reach a “mere” 250kg (550lbs). Take that, you pathetic midget snakes!
On the other hand, it’s not the anacondas faults. They shrank in the wash.
“My titanboa don’t want none 'less you’re one ton, hon.”
<golf clap>
No, it was fat. But you can tell it.