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Vasuki Indicus
April 23 , 2024
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- Scientists have said that a fossil vertebra unearthed in Gujarat are the remains of the largest snake that ever lived, which was longer than the T-rex.
- The discovery of 'Vasuki Indicus' was made in 2005 by scientists from IIT-Roorkee and recently confirmed as a giant snake.
- They lived 47 million years ago in the marshy swamps of Kutch.
- It establishes India's crucial link in the origin and evolutionary process of various species, especially reptiles.
- The researchers have discovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, and some of them looks like a large python and would not have been venomous.
- They estimate the length of the snake to be in the range of 11-15 metres (about 50 feet) and it must have weighed 1 tonne.
- By size, the Vasuki indicus may have exceeded the now-extinct Titanoboa, the largest known snake that measured 42 feet.
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