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Snake-alike Titanoboa robot is beyond eek (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many 40-something surfers become six year olds when seeing spiders, snakes, and insects in machine form. They either think the machines are scary but funny or at the least entertaining. A ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 19, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa

Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Researchers reveal ancient giant turtle fossil

Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the fossilized remains ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study names new ancient crocodile relative from the land of Titanoboa

Did an ancient crocodile relative give the world's largest snake a run for its money?

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake

The discovery of a new fossil turtle species in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Florida Museum of Natural History helps ...

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created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient crocodile relative likely food source for Titanoboa

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described this week by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology was likely a food source for Titanoboa, the la ...

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created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Largest prehistoric snake on record discovered in Colombia (Video)

Scientists have recovered fossils of a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and more cuddly.

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 19


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