Giant Snake Ate Baby Dinosaurs (page 2)
A fossilized snake has been discovered inside a titanosaur nest in India, leading researchers to conclude that the snake fed on newly-hatched dinosaur babies, rather than their eggs like modern snakes. Paleontologist and snake expert Jason Head says that the snake, known as Sanajeh indicus, lacked the wipe-jaws needed to swallow eggs, but just-hatched baby titanosaurs would have been perfect prey for the 3.5 meter (nearly 12 feet) long serpent. Titanosaurs belong to the sauropods, long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs which includes the world's largest animals to ever walk the land.
Giant Snake Ate Baby Dinosaurs
Giant ancient snake fossil is found coiled around a crushed dinosaur egg.
Mon 1 Mar 10 from Livescience
Ancient Dinosaur-Eating Snakes
Sixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings first scrambled out of their eggs, their first-and last-glimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long snake named ...
Thu 4 Mar 10 from Laboratory Equipment
Featured - 'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies, Tue 2 Mar 10 from Labspaces.net
Prehistoric snake gobbled-up dinosaur babies
A fossilized snake has been discovered inside a titanosaur nest in India, leading researchers to conclude that the snake fed on newly-hatched dinosaur babies, rather than their eggs like modern ...
Wed 3 Mar 10 from Mongabay.com
Prehistoric snake gobbled-up sauropod babies, Mon 1 Mar 10 from Mongabay.com
Ancient Snakes Ate Dinosaur Babies
A 3.5-metre-long snake that lived 67 million years ago made a habit of eating baby sauropods as they first scrambled out of their eggs, say paleontologists writing in PLoS Biology. The conclusion ...
Tue 2 Mar 10 from Scientific Blogging
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India
BANGKOK (AP) -- The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile's dining habits and evolution, scientists ...
Tue 2 Mar 10 from AP
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India, Tue 2 Mar 10 from Examiner
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India, Tue 2 Mar 10 from Examiner
Fossil Snake Fed On Hatchling Dinosaurs
Image Caption: Snake-dinosaur fossil. Life-sized reconstruction of the moment just before preservation. The scales and patterning of Sanajeh's skin is based on modern relatives of the fossil ...
Tue 2 Mar 10 from RedOrbit
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