Recent discoveries in paleontology have unearthed remarkable fossils of ancient reptiles and snakes, highlighting significant finds in both India and the UK. In India, researchers have found fossilized remains of an enormous snake, estimated to be up to 50 feet long and weighing about a ton, making it a contender for the largest snake ever lived. This 47-million-year-old fossil was discovered in a coal mine in Gujarat. Meanwhile, in the UK, a team of amateur fossil hunters discovered a jawbone of an ichthyosaur, which could be part of the largest marine reptile ever found, measuring over 20 meters. This discovery was made on a beach in southwest England and dates back 200 million years.
Scientists Discover Fossil of a Colossal Marine Reptile, Potentially the Largest Ever: https://t.co/MU8PnPQTVZ
A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor, paleontologists suggest in a new study. https://t.co/g29Xd79UE7
Meet A Megaraptor: New Dinosaur Footprints Reveal Raptors Grew Scarily Big https://t.co/h6msVpwW08
Paleontologists have discovered the largest marine reptile ever found—a predator, twice the length of a city bus, that lived during the Triassic Period https://t.co/CyF5wos2Ns https://t.co/ODHdvLxwrw
‘Largest raptor footprints ever’ discovered in China. https://t.co/lAEoMYeqJC Click the image to read more:
‘Largest raptor footprints ever’ discovered in China https://t.co/mr8Az3KAiv
The face of a 191 year old tortoise, the oldest known living land animal. https://t.co/D46ggNEKWz
Raptors have a ferocious reputation, but most were relatively small. Large footprints discovered in southeast China suggest the dinosaur that left them was one of the largest raptors ever. https://t.co/YEIM7QoIPU
Huge dinosaur footprints belonged to one of the largest raptors ever https://t.co/ZWZiagpk5X
Largest extinct snake known as a Titanoboa has been found in India. It measures 50 feet or about 5 story building long. Now this is a serious snake 😮 https://t.co/UsMxJOOWLi
"Deinonychosaur trackways in southeastern China record a possible giant troodontid" Read more in @iScience_CP: https://t.co/wOdncuiXwS #ChinaUniversityOfGeosciences Lida Xing @WScottPersons
#WATCH | Vertebrate palaeontologists at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee have discovered an ancient fossil of a giant snake in Gujarat "This fossil was discovered from a coal mine in the Kachchh area of Gujarat in 2005. This snake is about 47 million years old. It is… https://t.co/09lRFhWLLv
Researchers Discover Fossil of a Colossal Marine Reptile, Potentially the Largest Ever: https://t.co/MU8PnPQTVZ
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in India is of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex. https://t.co/eQS24IyPj1
IIT Roorkee professors who discovered the fossil believe the 47-million-year-old #snake is estimated to be 11-15 metres long. https://t.co/GaaJ29vSxe
Only one other known snake may have been this long. https://t.co/q4nuBTIJ2f
Giant 50-Foot Snake Found in India. Upside: It's Extinct. https://t.co/6Is4EQ6CqN
A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. https://t.co/7RtoqhLZa4
Fossilised bones from an enormous, 47-million-year-old snake have been found in India – and it’s a contender for the largest snake that ever lived. https://t.co/o8YCj6eUve
A jawbone from what could be the largest marine reptile to have ever existed has been discovered. @timothyrevell tells @ctaylsaurus how a team of amateur fossil hunters discovered part of a 20-plus metre ichthyosaur on a UK beach. 🎧 https://t.co/BpwUttS6BI https://t.co/Ll175MRthp
Extinct snake that measured up to 50 feet long discovered in India https://t.co/CshWN8o54t
The 200-million-year-old fossilised remains of an ancient ichthyosaur, unearthed on a beach in south-west England, may be part of the largest marine reptile ever found. https://t.co/kAHAvs0arD
This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton https://t.co/CB3juqmgeT