Titanoboa: The 42-Foot Snake That Ruled the World After the Dinosaurs

66 million years ago, the asteroid hit. The dinosaurs disappeared. And the world went quiet. Then something moved into the silence. The Titanoboa was 42 feet long and weighed 2,500 pounds. It lived in a world 8 degrees hotter than today, in the jungles of what is now Colombia. And for 2 million years after the dinosaurs were gone, it was the largest predator on Earth. Not one of them. The largest. Full stop. Nobody knew it existed until 2009, when its bones were found in a coal mine. In this video: the real size, how the constriction worked and how much pressure it generated, what it hunted, why the size of this snake tells us exactly how hot the world was 58 million years ago, why it disappeared, and why a single vertebra fossil the size of a dinner plate is one of the most significant bones ever pulled out of the ground. This is the animal that ruled the world after the T-Rex left it. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss what's coming next. #Titanoboa #PrehistoricAnimals #Snakes #NatureDocumentary #Paleontology