Can a snake truly be longer than a school bus? Vasuki indicus is a ginormous prehistoric snake that broke every assumption ...

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Named after the mythical serpent Vasuki from Hindu mythology, it belonged to the now-extinct Madtsoiidae family, a group of ...

This largest snake in the world used to live 60–58 ... At first, they thought the bones might belong to a prehistoric crocodile. But upon closer inspection, the fossils resembled the backbone ...

With an estimated length of 36 to 50 feet, Vasuki Indicus rivaled Titanoboa, the largest known snake, and may have weighed around 2,200 pounds. This ancient snake thrived in warm temperatures of ...

The prehistoric snake Titanoboa certainly lived up to its ... "After the extinction of the dinosaurs, this animal, the Titanoboa, was the largest predator on the surface of the planet for at ...

Researchers have discovered fossils of an enormous prehistoric snake named Vasuki indicus in ... making it one of the largest ever recorded. It thrived in a warm climate and was likely an ambush ...