For the exploration of paleontology, people have the impression that paleontology is often giant, to talk about ancient snake creatures, naturally think of titan pythons, body length can reach 12 meters, the appearance is very aggressive, but not all ancient snakes are so large, found in India a kind of upper Cretaceous snake - ancient slit snake, the size is not as good as the current python, the ancient slit snake body length is only about 3.5 meters.
Ancient rift snake stealing dinosaur egg fossil figure: The ancient rift snake body length is not huge enough, but the animal it preys on is a dinosaur, experts found that the ancient slit snake is completely hunting fossils, the fossil of the ancient rift snake is wrapped around the eggs and cubs of the sauropod dinosaurs, hunting juvenile sauropod dinosaurs, and sauropod dinosaurs the largest body length of more than 30 meters, generally about 20 meters long, of course, there are 5 to 13 meters of sauropod dinosaurs.
Ancient rift snake fossil map: I can't imagine that the body length is not as good as the ancient slit snake of the current python, and dare to steal dinosaur cubs or dinosaur eggs that are twenty or thirty meters long, of course, this is also related to the sauropod dinosaur nest habits, sauropod dinosaurs will not always guard the nest, these small sauropod dinosaurs have just hatched, can only rely on themselves, so that the ancient rift snake These predators have the opportunity to sneak attack and hunt.
Ancient rift snake depiction: living in the era of dinosaur rule, ancient rift snake is like an opportunistic predator, they are far less than the size of dinosaurs, naturally do not dare to fight the idea of adult dinosaurs, ancient rift snake hunting habit is like to go to the nest to forage, and it is possible to eat a variety of prey, including the eggs of the foot of the beast and small reptiles!
Ancient rift snake steals small dinosaurs restoration figure: Ancient rift snake can swallow dinosaurs, but in the age of dinosaurs, this snake is also the food of dinosaurs, adult sauropods can easily step on it with a few feet, for carnivorous dinosaurs, such as the survival of the late Cretaceous Shengwang dragon These large carnivorous dinosaurs In the eyes of these large carnivorous dinosaurs, the ancient rift snake is their food, and the ancient slit snake only has the opportunity to eat dinosaurs when the small dinosaurs are just born or when they are still dinosaur eggs.
Ancient slit snake recovery figure: we all know that the current amount of python swallowing is very scary, once can swallow the same weight as the weight or more than the weight of the animal, but the ancient slit snake does not have this skill, can handle larger prey, but will not and can not swallow too large prey, it is speculated that the snake is actually the first to enhance the mouth movement and intra-mouth movement, and then develop a wide rift, the Indian ancient rift snake will only choose to swallow prey smaller than the maximum openness of its mouth!
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