The largest snake the world has ever known likely had a diet that included crocodile, or at least an ancient relative of the reptile.
Scientists have discovered a 60-million-year-old ancient crocodile fossil, which has been named a new species, in northern Columbia, South America. The site, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines, also yielded skeletons of the giant, boa constrictor-like Titanoboa, which measured up to 45 feet long (14 m).
Crocodyliforms are extinct reptiles that are distant relatives of modern crocodiles and alligators.
"We're starting to flesh out the fauna that we have from there," said study author Alex Hastings, a graduate student at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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