50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live

 

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Joel Kontinen

A Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet. The newfound snake was much longer than any living snake, including this green anaconda. 

“Scientists in India have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that may be the largest known serpent to ever live.”

The supersized serpent may have measured 15 meters or 50 feet  long — surpassing the current record-holder Titanoboa by around 2 meters or 6.5 feet, .

“The newly identified species, named Vasuki Indicus, takes its genus name from the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism, which is often depicted wrapped around the neck of one of Hinduism's main deities, Shiva.”

Scientists believe that the fossil is 47 million years old and it is a fully grown adult.

“V. indicus belongs to a group of snakes known as Madtsoiidae, which first appeared in the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.”

Source:

Jacklin Kwan, 2024, 50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live  13 April

  

A snake with four legs is not a snake

 

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Joel Kontinen

 

A fossil once thought to be a snake with four legs, connecting lizards and early snakes, is not the missing link scientists had hoped for.

Published in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, a study led by paleontologist Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta disputed the findings of a team of researchers that reported their discovery of what they believed was the first known example of a four-legged snake fossil. They dubbed it Tetrapodophis amplectus in their study published in the journal Science in 2015.

According to evolutionists, it has long been understood that snakes are members of a lineage of four-legged vertebrates that, as a result of evolutionary specializations, lost their limbs," said Caldwell. "It has thus long been predicted that a snake with four legs would be found as a fossil."

The researchers in the original study estimated that T. amplectus was about 25 centimetres or 10 inches long.

Caldwell pointed out that all aspects of its anatomy are consistent with dolichosaurs: a group of extinct marine lizards from the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago).

The dates are wrong, also.  

Source:

Barillas, Martin M, 2021,  Four-Legged Snake Fossil a Fake, Scientists Say, Newsweek 21November.. 

A Rare, Two-Headed Rattlesnake Fond In New Jersey

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Joel Kontinen

This might just be the think the Darwinists were hoping for- a snake with two heads, That’s is, they have gene duplication and hox genes, so why not?

However, not even Darwinists expect this to be so. “Bob Zappalorti, the CEO of the Herpetological Associates of Burlington County, an environmental consulting company that studies endangered reptiles and birds, among other animals, told the news outlet the snake ‘probably wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild.’”

”According to National Geographic. The rare genetic abnormality can hinder the snake’s ability to catch prey.

“Two-headed snakes are rare and typically do not survive for long in the wild, Snakes operate a good deal by smell, and if one head catches the scent of prey on the other's head, it will attack and try to swallow the second head,” National Geographic explained, adding two-head snakes develop similarly to Siamese twins when an embryo does not properly split into two.

Source:

Farber, Madeline. 2019. Rare, two-headed rattlesnake found in New Jersey 'probably wouldn't survive in the wild'. Fox News (6 September).