The finding, published by the Nature magazine, was done in the coalmine of the Hillock, according to affirms the publication. The serpent had of 13 to 14 meters in length and more than 1,145 kilos of weight.

This being weighs more than a bison and is longer than an urban bus, commented the expert Conrad Jack of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, that is familiarized with the finding.

Easily something could eat as large as a cow. A human being would be imprisoned easy, said the paleontologist Jason Head, of the University of Toronto in Missisauga. If he tried to enter my office to eat to me, he would have difficulties to strain itself by the door.

The beast probably fed itself on the ancestors of the crocodiles in a forest does 58 to 60 million years, added.

Head is the main author of the report published in the Nature magazine. The same edition presents/displays another significant report: a group of scientists said to have found the oldest evidence of life animal, steroid vestiges produced by sponges does more than 635 million years in Omán.

The discoverers of the serpent baptized Titanoboa cerrejonensis, that means colossal Hillock boa, the region where he was found.

Although related to the modern constrictora boa, more behaved as an anaconda and happened all along in the water, said Head. It could slide on earth and also to swim.

Conrad, that did not participate in the discovery, described the finding as incredible surpasses all the imaginable one on the size of the serpents.

The Titanoboa surpasses the record for the length of a serpent in 3,35 meters (11 feet), exceeding a creature who lived about 40 million ago years in Egypt, needed Head. Between the present serpents, the registered major is one pitón of 9.14 meters (30 feet) of length, that measures as well of 3.70 to 4.60 meters (12 on 15 feet) less than the typical Titanoboas, said Jonathan Bloch, coauthor of the study.

The beast left to light at the beginning of the 2007 in the Museum of Natural Sciences of Florida in Gainesville, of the University of Florida. When the bones arrived that had been dug up in the open-cast coalmine, Bloch said, curador of paleontology of vertebrates in the museum, the advanced students unpacked who realized them that was seeing the bones of a really great serpent.

They compared immediately them with the skeleton of an anaconda of 5.20 meters (17 feet).

Until now the experts have found about 180 originating fossils of two dozens of serpents, and hope to return to Colombia to find parts of the skull, said Bloch.

The size of the Titanoboa gives indications on its atmosphere. The size of a serpent is related to the heat of its habitat. The fossils suggest them equatorial temperatures at that time significantly more were lifted than the present ones, during a time at which everybody was warmer. So that the equatorial temperatures apparently raised along with the global levels, in contrast to the opposite hypothesis that they did not increase much, indicated Head.

The fact suggests them equatorial regions are warmed up along with the planet, added.

But it indicated that we will not have gigantic serpents because we are eliminating the majority of its habitats by means of the development and the deforestation in the equatorial regions, added.