Snake Fossil

Dr Jonathan Bloch looks through fossils of giant snake

Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.
Scientists in Colombia have discovered the fossils of a snake that grew up to 15m long around 60-million years ago Scientists believe It was the mother of all snakes, a nightmarish behemoth as long as a school bus and as heavy as a Volkswagen Beetle that ruled the ancient.
The find not only sheds new light on snake evolution; it also provides telling insights on climate. The snake flourished about 58 million to 60 million years ago. Because Titanoboa cerrejonensis, as it has been named, was coldblooded, the tropical climate had to be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than it is today for a snake that large to survive, said evolutionary biologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, lead author of a paper on the fossils appearing today in the journal Nature.