Titan pythons belong to the Boidae, the largest known snake species, and they are like the product of the enlargement of modern pythons. It is said that such large variable temperature animals are said to survive at least temperatures from as low as 30 °C to 34 °C, so the assumptions of climate models that determine high temperatures in the Neotropical boundary of the Paleocene due to large amounts of carbon dioxide are consistent. Titan pythons can reach an average body length of 12 meters and weigh more than 1 ton, which is enough to explain their terrible point. Their diet consists of a 4.57-meter-long, half-ton blunt-nosed crocodile and a 3.05-meter lungfish, as well as some large contemporary turtles. Titan pythons became extinct nearly 58 million years ago.
Chinese Titan Python Alias Serejonsis Latin scientific name tianoboa cerrejonesis Phylum Chordata subphylum Vertebrate Vertebrate reptiles Reptilia Suborder Reptilia Reptilia Reptidae Reptiles have squamata
Suborder Serpentes family Boidae subfamily Boidae subfamily Titan python genus Titanoboa species Serejon Titanboa Tianoboa cerrejonesis subspecies Titan python distribution area In northern Colombia, South America, about 15 m in length and 1.14 tonnes
Titan pythons are 9-15 meters long pythons that weigh about 1.135 tons. The largest snakes (as of April 2012) are the 7-metre-long Mori crab (the heaviest surviving snake) and the 8-metre-long reticulated python (the longest surviving snake); while the smallest surviving snake, the Carla Blind Snake, is only 10 cm long. The longest fossil snake before that was an African python, unearthed from Egypt, is 7-12 meters long. Titan pythons, like modern pythons, are much larger in female size than males.
The Titan Python is an extinct snake that can be said to be a close relative of the modern Great Cockroach snake. They live in the rainforests of northern Colombia in South America. According to the fossils excavated in the Serejón Coal Mine in Colombia in 20 years, it is estimated that the giant cockroach is larger than the modern python, with a body length of about 12-15 meters, weighing about 1100 kg, and the width can even reach 1 meter thick, which is very amazing.
The researchers pointed out that in addition to the evidence found that titan pythons and crocodilyform crocodiles live next to each other, the confrontation between snakes and crocodile offspring now further reflects the natural enemy relationship between these two reptiles.
Titan pythons, because of their snake species, are thermostatic animals, and the tropical areas they lived in at that time were warmer than the researchers originally estimated, with an average temperature of 32 °C, and only such a climate can make the snake grow so large, while the average annual temperature of modern local areas is 26 °C-28 °C. Broch found a giant snake fossil of a Titan python in fossils from the "Paleocene-Eocene Extreme Heat Event" period, which was almost as long as a bus. Therefore, he believes that after the warming of the climate, although mammals have shrunk in size, cold-blooded animals like reptiles have become larger. However, in 2011, researchers had concluded that warming would lead to the shrinking of cold-blooded animals.
Titan pythons became extinct nearly 58 million years ago, and figuratively speaking, they are the product of an enlarged modern python. Climate change may have been a major factor in the extinction of Titan Pythons. Cold-blooded animals are affected by the temperature of their environment, so when the temperature changes drastically, they cannot regulate their body temperature by the temperature of the environment. Giant reptiles like Titan pythons generally need to survive in an environment with an average temperature of 30 ° C to 34 ° C. However, with the impermanence of climate change in geological times, their metabolism, reproductive period chaos, and food sources have also been greatly reduced, eventually leading to their extinction. The discovery that titan pythons, because of their snake form, is a warmer, warmer tropical region than the researchers originally estimated, with an average temperature of 32°C, which is the only climate that allows snakes to grow so large, while the average annual temperature in modern areas is 26°C to 28°C.
In the absence of fossil evidence, the researchers used the green water nymph that inhabits the Jungles of the Amazon in South America as the object of the Titan Python. The giant crab is currently the largest snake, reaching up to 10 meters long and weighing more than 225 kilograms. They prefer to live in swamps and rivers, and usually prey on water birds, fish, sheep, turtles and other animals, and sometimes even swallow crocodiles more than two meters long. Their aggressive nature makes them one of the most dangerous creatures in the Amazon jungle.
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Titan Pythons are the largest land carnivores on Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and have dominated the earth for millions of years. Titan pythons may be more than 15 meters long, weigh more than 1100 kilograms, and reach more than 1 meter at the thickest point of their bodies.
Largest snake in history: The largest known snake to date is the Titan python cerrejonensis, a prehistoric python found in 28 fossil specimens found in the Cerrejon coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. These fossils show that titan pythons that lived between 58 million and 60 million years ago during the Paleocene period had a maximum body length of 12 to 15 meters, a thickness of about 1 meter wide, and a weight of about 1135 kilograms. (Guinness World Records)
In 2011, the journal Nature published a paper by expedition scientist Jason J. Head et al., "Discovery of giant pythons in the Neotropical Paleons suggests that the equator was hotter in the past," which claimed that a giant snake fossil was found in the Cerrejon Formation formation about 60 million to 58 million years ago in the Guajira Peninsula in northeastern Colombia, South America. Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the genus name means "Titan's Python", and the species name is Selejon in commemoration of the discovery of The Land. The Serejon Titan Python belongs to the boidae family and is the largest known snake. It is said that such large variable temperature animals are said to survive at least temperatures from as low as 30 °C to 34 °C, so the assumptions of climate models that determine high temperatures in the Neotropical boundary of the Paleocene due to large amounts of carbon dioxide are consistent.