The snake has been dubbed "Titanoboa" in the story here:
Partial skeletons of a new giant, boa constrictor-like snake named “Titanoboa” found in Colombia by an international team of scientists and now at the University of Florida are estimated to be 42 to 45 feet long, the length of the T-Rex “Sue” displayed at Chicago’s Field Museum, said Jonathan Bloch, a UF vertebrate paleontologist who co-led the expedition with Carlos Jaramillo, a paleobotanist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. ...
Based on the snake’s size, the team was able to calculate that the mean annual temperature at equatorial South America 60 million years ago would have been about 91 degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 degrees warmer than today, Bloch said.
No word on what evil fossil fuel was responsible for the global warming.
The Washington Post story here cuts off the story, leaving out the part about temperature: "It would have to have been so warm . . .."
So warm what?
Gee, I wonder why they cut him off?
