Giant Snake Hints at Life in Hot Times

摘要

In February researchers announced that they had uncovered the 60-million-year-old remains of Indiana Jones's greatest nightmare: Titanoboa, the biggest snake of all time. The bones of this 43-foot, one-ton, crocodile-munching behemoth-found amid the remains of an ancient rain forest-are helping scientists understand what the earth was like when the climate was much warmer.