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How a Coal Mine Dig Unearthed a Prehistoric Mega-Snake

How a Coal Mine Dig Unearthed a Prehistoric Mega-Snake

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Most people have never heard of the Cerrejn coal mine, located in Colombia. The mine pumps out over 30 million tons of coal each year, and it's also become a critical site for scientists. In fact, the coal mine ranks as one of the best fossil sites in the world, providing a window into a tropical rain forest from 60 million years ago. Scientists almost missed the fossils at Cerrejn - until an undergraduate noticed a surprising number of sandstone impressions of fossil leaves. His discovery led to an expedition that found multiple new species, including the largest snake in history
Date: 2022-12-29

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The vast majority of the entire fossil record is made up of bones, not fossils. This is conclusive evidence that most dating is way off. It simply isn't possible for bone matter to exist hundreds of millions of years. Not even close.
Interestingly; We have no stories of the now famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, nor do we see any reptiles or mammals today with shoulder joints in front of their rib cage, as the T-rex skeletons have been assembled.
There doesn't seem to be any logical explanation of why the bones would be assembled as they were outside of the presumption that there were arms or claws.
We DO however see bird bone structures with such bones over their spine, supporting wings of mostly cartilage. Not over their ribs, as was done in the case of the T Rex.
If one were to reconstruct the T-rex bone replicates in accordance to how birds bones are assembled, it would resemble the North American Wyvern. With large wings on it's back rather than useless stubby arms off his front.
Of course Wyverns are recorded only in myth, and the stories do not come from the same region as the skeletal remains such myths would seem to be describing. Even if it turns out they happened to be correct.

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My late Grandpa, who mined coal in West Virginia for almost 40 yrs, from the 1930's to the 1970's told they once blasted a section of coal and uncovered something that looked like and giant snake that was as big around as an oil drum and ran from one wall of the tunnel across to the other. He said they weren't sure whether it was a snake or some sort of tree, but it looked more like scales to him. I asked what they did with it and he said they ground it up with the rest of the coal and filled it in the cars like everything else. To the bosses, he said, coal is coal and they didn't have time for anything but digging coal. They didn't have time for people stopping production to look at every fossil. Apparently the mine he worked in was full of fossils. Kind of sad really.
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Imagine if these were here today. Like there's so much to think about in the fact of. we would be so desensitized from it because of it being a normal animal in our everyday lives but also makes you wonder if they were still alive how would us as humans have adapted with that? Would we have been the same size and would've had snake proof housing and communities? Would we be a bit bigger through adaptation thus evening things out? Would we even be in any danger because were mere snacks to these ancient giant? There's so many things to account for with no easy answers but its still a crazy theoretical that I enjoy thinking about to often.
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I live in Indiana, just across the Ohio River from a place called Big Bone Salt Lick in Kentucky. It contains pleistocene era fossils of Mastodons and other species, some of which were first discovered there. I row over and check out the creek beds around the place and have lots of great specimens including a portion of tusk and a tooth that belonged to a mastodon.
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FYI though, How many times bigger can a snake eat?
When they do capture prey, snakes can eat animals up to three times bigger than their head is wide because their lower jaws unhinge from their upper jaws. Once in a snake's mouth, the prey is held in place by teeth that face inward, trapping it there

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it's almost incomprehensible how much is just lying beneath the surface of the earth and oceans. imagine the discoveries 300 feet below the sahara desert sands, or 100ft below the sediment of the mariana trench. it saddens me that 99. 9% of all fossils will never be unearthed.
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Video about a giant 42 FEET long snake:
Also video about a giant 42 FEET long snake: a giant crocodile that gets its name from J. R. R Tolkiens the Lord of the Rings.
Me: Wait WHAAAAAAAT! A freaking prehistoric crocodile was named after the BALROG!

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All Animals That Survived Extinction, Survived Because GOD brought Animals HE wanted Saved to The Ark that GOD told Noah to build To save Noah, His Wife, Noahs 3 Sons and their Wives from The Judgement of The Flood that Covered The Whole Earth.
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Amazing how much information it is possible to extract from one stone. You guys must be gods or totally deluded. You think that there are only dumb people out there who do not think for themselves? Happy fairytale grown up-life!
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. DC is very clean for the most part. My grandmother lived in Fairfax and my cousin is a state trooper living in Gainesville. I've spent a lot of time there. It is actually one of the better kept cities
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I was picturing a scene more akin to some miners removing a layer of rocks on a wall only to uncover a ferocious gigant snake launching at them jaws wide open but this is also pretty interesting.
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Thats not how you pronounce our last name its pronounced Jeh-ruh-mello or hot-ah-mio thats the two ways Jaramillo is pronounced its not that hard but trust me everyone gets it wrong its fine
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The flood was approximately 4400 yrs ago we've been here 6000 give or take a few years don't be mislead by God hating atheist so called scientist they're idiots of the highest order
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lol. most Americans don't know where Columbia is much less know anything about anything unless if it's somewhere they can go take a selfie while they destroy it.
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Interesting facts mate, definitely should put your measurements in matric not outdated imperial. Only backwards yanks can understand your measurements
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A bit like Wales then, there aren't any rats in Wales, only big mice - a rat in Welsh is called: llygoden fawr, which translates to: big mouse.
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Wait you say it can weight up to 2 tons and then say it can weigh up to 2500lbs. Thats a 1500lbs weight difference. Which is it?
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Scientists being fantasy nerds just seems like the most natural thing in the world but I never really thought about it too much until now.
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I like snakes, but THAT's a bit too much of snake. Insane. A human would be. a light snack probably. Thaaaaaaaaaaankfully it's extinct.
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How long would we survive in a titanoboa swamp? Plar Ark survivor evolved and spawn in a swamp, you'll find out that it's not long at all.
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