Remains of extinct megasnake found in mine in India

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Remains of extinct megasnake found in mine in India

A hose that is longer than a city bus and weighs 1000 kilos. It's hard to imagine, but the discovery of fossil remains of vertebrae in India could indicate that such a snake was actually alive, say researchers. Pieces of the snake's backbone were discovered in a mine in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The researchers compared more than twenty fossil vertebrae with skeletons of living snakes to estimate their probable size. Its height is est…