MONSTER SNAKE REMAINS FOUND!!! Scientists in Colombia unearther a snake that stretched almost 43 feet and wieghed almost 2,500 pounds. You may ask, at this point, what the relevance to international politics is. At first I was asking the same question. I will not lie, at first i was trying to fabricate some reason so I could just post about the giant snake, but out of my efforts have realized that the information the snake provides us with is very relevant today.
Snakes are cold blooded, meaning their matabolisms are powered by external heat. A snake of this magnitude must have had a lot of external heat in the environment to possibly have survived. Scientists estimate that the snake would have required a mean temperature of 91 degrees fairenhiet. This temperature, in Colombia, is a full ten degrees higher than what the mean temperature is today. So, over a period of 60 million years the worlds temperature has cooled a startling 10 degrees. Can we say global climate change anybody?
This is why we do not see giant reptiles anymore, the world is simply not warm enough to facilitate the monstrous proportions of old. In the case of the large killer snakes, this is a good thing, but in the case of the rest of the world, the results are not so favorable. This global climate change has already whiped out these historic species. Are human beings next?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/02/05/giant.snake.colombia/index.html
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