by David Gura

This morning, Neal and Sarah were talking about a story I missed. Or deliberately skipped, maybe. In Colombia, scientists discovered the fossilized remains of a 43-foot "super snake"

Ick.

Here's how Thomas H. Maugh II, of the Los Angeles Times, described the thing, a Titanoboa cerrejonensis:

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 Amazonian rain forest for 2 million years before slithering into nonexistence.

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