More than 60 million years ago, there was a giant sea snake called the ancient cup snake in the ocean, their body length can reach 10 meters, and even can prey on sharks, and now it is extinct, because the ancient cup snake lives in the ocean, and it is easy to be destroyed, so the fossils of the ancient cup snake found by humans are very few. Modern sea snakes are poisonous, so scientists speculate that the ancient cup snake is also highly venomous.
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Ancient cup snake is an ancient sea snake, appeared in the Paleocene more than 60 million years ago, according to archaeologists' fossil inferences, the small size of the ancient cup snake body length of 1 to 5 meters, while the large size of the body can reach 9 to 10 meters, the weight can reach 310 kg. Definitely a behemoth.
The ancient cup snake vertebrae have anterior concave and posterior convex hinges, and the ribs are long to adapt to life in the sea, and like today's sea snakes, they live on shallow shores and triangle bays. The ancient cup snake is a more peculiar type of ancient sea snake, it has no primary and middle movement joints, the maxillary process connecting the prefrontal bone is very developed, and there are 4 teeth on the front jaw.
Although fossils of the vertebrae of the ancient cup snake are often found, there is little information that can be provided, which has always been a pain for scientists. The fossils of ancient cup snakes found today are incomplete, so only speculation can be made about their living habits.
The ancient cup snake can prey on sharks, which is called the hegemony of the ocean ↓↓↓
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The size of the gubei snake varies greatly, with some genera reaching 6.4 m and weighing 36.3 kg, while others are said to even have 9 m and 310 kg. For example, the Colossegu cup snake in West Africa in the New Age is 9 to 10 meters long, but some genera are only 50.8 cm long.
Fossils of the paleocake snake can be found in Western Europe, Egypt, Nigeria and the United States, showing that they were distributed from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea. They are said to have preyed on sharks of the time.
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Because modern sea snakes are poisonous, scientists are also speculating whether this ancient cup snake is also poisonous, but it is due to too few fossils and related information, so the toxicity is still an unknown, so far scientists have a very limited understanding of the ancient cup snake.
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