Titanoboa: The Giant Snake of the Past

In the time of dinosaurs, everything except some mammals were big. Now, a new creature has been added to the list: the Titanoboa. Weighing 2500 pounds (1134 kilograms) and being 48 feet long (14.6 meters) which, in any shape or form might scare your socks off.

The Titanoboa has the girth of a manhole, meaning it could eat a three-man-lengthed crocodile only by slightly expanding its throat. In fact, the museum in Manhattan where the exhibit is located has a life sized model doing just that. The fossil and bones were actually found in a Columbian Coal Mine in 2005. Initially, people didn't really know what it was. They knew it was a great discovery, just not how much of one.  After closely studying the remains they finally concluded it was a giant snake. Then to conclude their conclusion, they got an ancient snake expert from the University of Nebraska to tell them: its a Titanoboa!

I thought the post on D.O.G.O was, while fun and slightly educational, wasn't too descriptive in any other way than just the basic facts. I recommend this to children aged 7 to 10 because its educational enough for 10 year old at the most and won't frighten kids aged 6 or below. (Unless they're knowledgeable enough to grasp at the subject or that's the way you treat children)