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New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home.
Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long.
This is up to eight feet longer than the largest snake known to man and nearly 17 feet longer than the current largest living snake, the Associated Press reported this week.
The snake weighed up to a ton, researchers said in a Scientific Reports article published on April 18.
The giant reptile is believed to have roamed — or rather, slithered on — the Earth about 47 million years ago.
Researchers who found the snake dubbed it “Vasuki indicus,” the AP said.
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