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Ancient Titanoboa Snake ate Crocodiles
February 10, 2010 | University of Florida

The enormous Titanoboa snake probably ate crocodiles for breakfast, according to fossils from the Cerrejon coal mines of Colombia. The pits contain fossils of the ancient snake and Cerrejonisuchus improcerus, a newly-discovered, crocodile-like species that was around 2 meters in length.


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