“The argument that they make, that a long, slender animal that size is more hydrodynamically efficient than if they’re really kind of fat and chunky, like if you scale up a living great white — that argument is a good one,” he said. “But still, I’m not saying it gets stuck ...
Until very recently, the largest snake ever known to have lived isTitanoboa cerrejonensis, a prehistoric species of boa known from the fossils of 28 specimens found in the coal mines of Cerrejón in La Guajira, Colombia. Their discovery had been made by an international scientific expedition led...
The 37-million-year-old fossil bones were so large, experts thought they were boulders. They may have come from the heaviest animal that ever lived.
Quetzalcoatlus: the largest flying animal ever lived on Earth (by wingspan) The largest flying animal ever lived (by wingspan): Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction at JuraPark Bałtów, a dinosaur theme park with life-size models, an aquarium, stables, holiday cottages & fun-park rides in Bałtów...
Gigantophis garstiniwas a giant prehistoric snake that may have measured more than 10 meters (33 feet), larger than any living species of snake. Before Titanoboa was discovered in Colombia in 2002, it was regarded as the largest snake ever. Gigantophis lived approximately40 million years agoin ...
Jens-Christian Svenning adds, “Early modern humans were effective hunters of even the largest animal species and clearly had the ability to reduce the populations of large animals. These large animals were and are particularly vulnerable to overexploitation because they have long gesta...
Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its gigantic, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body. International researchers in collaboration with the University of Zurich used an exceptionally preserved specimen to create a 3...
“confirms that the region of Pombal has an important fossil record of Late Jurassic vertebrates.” She and her colleagues are already planning future excavations of the site. While the discovery will help scientists paint a clearer picture of the region’s prehistoric past, any future yard w...
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Now that researchers have uncovered a complete Arthropleura head, they hope the discovery can help them solve other riddles about the giant animal, including what it ate and how it breathed. But other fossils that preserve additional aspects of the arthropod’s body, including the head of an ...