Dinosaur Snakes!

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Newbian

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This thread is talking about giant snakes....

This will not end well.
 

Crono

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Pretty much everything was bigger during the time of the dinosaurs.
I wonder if surface gravity was less in the past.
 

SSSnail

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Originally posted by: Crono
Pretty much everything was bigger during the time of the dinosaurs.
I wonder if surface gravity was less in the past.

I don't know, but I think it has to be that eat or be eaten evolution concept, so everything grew bigger.
 

SagaLore

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Researchers excavating a coal mine in South America have found the fossilized remains of the mother of all snakes, a nightmarish tropical behemoth as long as a school bus and as heavy as a Volkswagen Beetle.

This author seems to have a vehicle fetish.
 

Crono

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Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
If you put one of these on a plane, could it take off?

Faulty logic. The plane would be eaten long before it could even attempt a take off.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Crono
Pretty much everything was bigger during the time of the dinosaurs.
I wonder if surface gravity was less in the past.

I believe the more crucial issue for size restrictions involves atmospheric content and how efficient a particular organism's respiratory system and metabolism deals with the available chemical content.

This tends to be true for reptiles, at least, and is a theory for size limits in insects.
 
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