This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton

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This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton
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The newly discovered behemoth lived 47 million years ago in western India’s swampy evergreen forests.This image shows views of some of the vertebrae of Vasuki indicus. 2:52 PM CDT April 20, 2024

They gave it the name Vasuki indicus after “the mythical snake king Vasuki, who wraps around the neck of the Hindu deity Shiva,” said Debajit Datta, a study co-author at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.“Considering its large size, Vasuki was a slow-moving ambush predator that would subdue its prey through constriction,” Datta said in an email.

While it's not clear exactly what Vasuki ate, other fossils found nearby reveal that the snake lived in swampy areas alongside catfish, turtles, crocodiles and primitive whales, which may have been its prey, Datta said., was discovered in Colombia and is estimated to have lived around 60 million years ago.

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