Vonaby snake Do you know what kind of snake it is?
About the world record of snakes we have introduced a lot before, such as the world's largest snake, the world's most venomous snake, etc., and the Vornabi snake is the most ferocious and brutal snake snake in ancient times (does not belong to the python family, the Titan python is the largest python in prehistory), today Xiaobian and you are introduced to the ancient giant snake list, the Wanabe snake can be called the first.
I. The Vonabi Snake (The First Giant Snake of Ancient Times)
The Warnaby snake, also known as the Warnhambee snake, is a very large snake in ancient times, not belonging to the python family, belonging to the extinct giant snake family. The Vonaby snake lived mainly in southern Australia during the Ice Age, and may have been in contact with the earliest Australian human ancestors, and the body length is also 5-6 meters. Named after the rainbow snake in the central Australian outback, the Wonabee snake is the oldest and most ferocious rainbow snake in legend (comparable to the ancient dragon "Deathwing" in the warcraft), perched deep underground under the famous red rock "Uluru", and whoever soils the spring will be punished by it.
[Imaginary image of the Vonabee snake preying on kangaroos.] Compared to similarly sized live pythons, giant snakes have smaller heads and primitive structures, swallowing only relatively small prey, although the spinal structure shows that its winding power is not bad. 】
Scientists speculate that the real Wanabee snake once ambushed near the precious water source in the Australian outback, waiting for the opportunity to sneak up on kangaroos and other marsupials that came to drink, and may also harm human children. The taboo in Australian outback Aboriginal cultures that prevents children from going to the water's edge alone may stem from this age-old threat.
However, it was the giant snake that really suffered the catastrophe. About 50,000 years ago, the Wanabee snake and all of Australia's large animals weighing more than 100 kilograms disappeared one after another, and it is not yet possible to say whether humans are fully responsible for this. The only thing that is certain is that the blood of the giant snake family that has survived for 70 million years has been cut off, and the human reverence for the great snake is still far from over.
The Wanabee snake was first discovered in Naracoort Caverns National Park in Australia and was the first extinct snake to be found in Australia. Its name is taken from a snake in the Dream Century according to local Australian Aboriginal legends. This snake is called the Rainbow Snake and is generally said to have created australia's main landscape.
The Vonabi snake appears to be a class of ambush predators that will entangle their prey to death instead of using toxins. Their heads are very small, so the size of the prey should be limited. Other species of the family Serpentidae disappeared from other places about 55 million years ago, but continue to survive and evolve in Australia. The Vonabi snake was the last surviving giant snake family that disappeared until 50,000 years ago.
The Vonaby snake lived during the Pleistocene Ice Age, perched in sunny places by pools of water. This giant snake ambushes kangaroos, wallabies and other prey that come to drink water. As a result, Aboriginal Australians traditionally do not allow children to play in these places, and can only be accompanied by an adult.
Second, the ancient rift giant snake in India
The Indian paleostrating snake is a Upper Cretaceous snake found in the West Indies. It is a fossil found in the Ramita Group that is wrapped around the eggs and juveniles of the sauropod dinosaurs. It can be seen that they are predatory juvenile sauropods.
The complete model specimen GSI/GC/2901–2906 contains a nearly complete skull and jaw, divided into 5 groups with a total of 72 segments of the precloacal spine and ribs. They are all found in the Maastricht Formation in the village of Hori Dungei in GujaratBond.
The skull of the Indian ancient schizopt is 95 mm long and is estimated to be about 3.5 meters long. There is a rectangular opening on either side of the skull, and inside the hole are the cranial nerves connected to the ears. This foramen is preceded by another opening, called the trigeminal foramen, which contains the cranial nerves that control the jawbone. The jaw joint, located on the posterior edge of the skull, is characteristic of primitive snakes. The sagittal crest connects the muscles of the jaw along the ventral surface of the skull.
The vertebral joints of the Indian ancient fissure snake are well developed. The nerve spines are thin and angled backwards. Their ribs extend outward to the supravertebral articular process. These are all traits common to the family Macrosnake.
The Indian ancient slit snake, like other ancient snakes, does not have large fissures like the family Aphididae, Python and Neosnaptera. Therefore, they will not eat large prey. Existing snakes with narrower slits, such as pintail snakes, pipe snakes, tube snakes and tube snakes, will only eat small animals, including ants, termite larvae, link animals, earthworms and footlesses. Their temporal bones are short, and the square bones are wide and short, and it can be seen that their fissures are very narrow. Their clefts should resemble those of today's genus Glitter snakes. However, their muscles are strong, so they can handle larger prey like giant mouths. The mandibular joints can be bent significantly, which also allows them to eat larger prey. It can be seen that the snake actually first enhances the movement of the mouth and the movement of the mouth, and then develops a wide fissure. Snakes that lose intracranial mobility may be an adaptation to digging the ground, rather than an ancestral sign.
The Ancient Indian Rift Snake may be circling the newly hatched eggs of the larvae. Dinosaur eggs may have been laid in nest-like structures, but this structure has not been preserved. Other eggs may have been too large for the Indian ancient slit snake to be eaten directly, but it is believed that it can break open and eat the substances inside the eggs. It is believed that the Indian ancient slit snake prefers to forage in its nests and may eat a variety of prey, including the eggs of the foot of the beast and small reptiles.
3. Cretaceous giant snake - Madsonna snake
Today, the world's longest and heaviest snakes belong to the anacondae, which are divided into old world pythons such as reticulated pythons, Burmese pythons, African rock pythons, amethyst pythons, and new world aphids such as green water nymphs and red-tailed grasshoppers. Pythons are also one of the oldest of the snakes, dating back to at least the late Cretaceous dinosaur era.
Even by today's standards, pythons in the age of dinosaurs were not very large, but there were some larger ancient snakes at that time, that is, the giant snake family. Fossils have been found in Africa, South America, Australia, India and Madagascar, which split off from the Gondwana ancient land.
Typically represented in the Cretaceous giant snake family is the Madsunna snake, some of which are estimated to be up to 6 meters long. Most of the fossils found so far are incomplete, but enough to reveal an important difference between giant snakes and pythons: they have not yet fully developed the "devourer" skill.
Pythons can swallow their prey in its entirety because their upper and lower jaws are joined together by a moving square bone, allowing them to open their mouths at a wide angle. Giant snakes did not have square bones in their mouths, so they could only eat smaller prey relative to their size, such as various small dinosaurs, juvenile dragons, birds and mammals at that time. Some fossils found in India show that the 3.5-meter-long Indian ancient slit snake could not swallow the entire dinosaur egg, but could only lurk around the dinosaur's lair, waiting for the small dinosaur to break out of its shell before performing strangulation skills on it.
In the shallow seas of the Cretaceous Period, there lived a prehistoric giant snake called the ancient cup snake, and the large ones were also 5-6 meters long. They had a swimming spine and tail, and probably fed on fish, but they should not have the deadly fangs of today's sea snakes.
When dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, giant snakes and crocodiles became one of the few large animals that survived, and hunger tolerance may have been crucial — unlike the hot-blooded foodies of dinosaurs, who didn't need to eat regularly, and it didn't matter if they were hungry for months. The Madsunna snake in South America and the ancient cup snake in Africa lived until the Eocene more than 40 million years ago, and even evolved longer and thicker species. However, the name of the first giant snake in history is not yet their turn.