Titanoboa – The Biggest Snake That Ever Lived [VIDEO]

It’s been on display at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.  It’s a life-size model of the biggest snake that ever lived.  No person ever came in contact with it because it lived during pre-historic times and long extinct.  But we know how big it was because fossils of it were found 10 years ago in a Columbian coal mine.

It’s known as Titanoboa.  The model on display is 48-feet long and according to the Smithsonian Channel it would have weighed a ton and a half.

Like any boa – it killed its prey by wrapping itself around its victim and squeezing.  Titanoboa could kill some
of the biggest dinosaurs of the time by squeezing with 400 pounds of pressure per square inch.  According to the Smithsonian Channel – that would be like being squished under the weight of three Eiffel towers.

After its run at Grand Central Terminal, the display will move to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

The Smithsonian Channel will premier a two-hour special beginning this Sunday – “Titanoboa – Monster Snake.”

SOURCE: Smithsonian Channel