![]() ![]() ![]() Organized by the Smithsonian, the traveling exhibition includes two vertebrae casts made from the original fossils: a 17-foot-long modern green anaconda and the vertebra from Titanoboa. Along with unearthing fossilized vertebrae of the previously undiscovered species of snake, scientists found remnants of giant turtles and the first-known bean plant. Fossil plants and animals found at the same site point to the earliest known rainforest dating to the Paleocene, a lost world that followed the demise of the dinosaurs. 25, features a full-scale model of the ancient reptile. "Titanoboa: Monster Snake," on display from Sept. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at 2,500 pounds, Titanoboa, the world's largest snake, could crush and devour a crocodile.ĭiscovered in a fossil bed deep within Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine, this monster predator is the star of the latest special exhibition at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in north Wilmington. ![]()
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