How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
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About 59 million years ago, the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. It’s only been in the past few years that we’ve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature, but it turns out that the greatest snake that the world ever saw was made possible by a warming planet.
Huge thanks to the Florida Museum of Natural History for allowing us to use their photos of Titanoboa fossils. Check out more information on Titanoboa from Jonathan Bloch, their Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, here: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100...
And thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their reptile illustrations:
Fabrizio de Rossi: / artoffabricious
Ceri Thomas: / alphynix
Franz Anthony: franzanth.com/
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Hey folks! As some of you have pointed out, we mistakenly show a Burmese python when discussing the longest living snake, the Reticulated python. Sorry we got our big snakes mixed up. We regret the error! -Seth
PBS Eons hi
I'm sure we all got the right idea :D
Mistakes happen not a big deal
BURMESE BURMESE BURMESE BURMESE
It's ok for a youtube channel based around science and history to be wrong I guess
The Meganoodle
Perfection
Must boop the snoot.
The BIGGEST WIGGLE 😋
The Most Absolute of Units
Typical Ukraine careful, is a danger noodle.
“I got mice in my attic”
I think this snake is better suited for handling a shark infestation
Or elephants. My attic is full of pink elephants.
Great white sharks would be enough to rip the snake apart
There is a much bigger bigger issue if you have a shark infestation in your attic.
Underrated comments
@A.Plosky the bats up there don't bother them? How fortunate. I'm just assuming their are bats there because the bats in my attic are intrinsic
seth: "made possible by"
my brain having grown up on years of PBS: viewers like you, thank you :)
seth: "a warming planet."
me: okay :(
“Thanks to support from viewers like you the Monster Snake can rise again :) all hail our Serpentine God :)”
;-;
"Viewers like you"
That phrase is burned into my brain lol
me too
I got mice in my attic
Titanoboa: *eats attic*
I learned two things today: global warming will make giant snakes and turtles ride giant snakes
Turtles really have no chill. There's documentary videos of turtles retesting on the backs of saltwater crocodiles. Almost like a symbiotic relationship!
@@frodobaggins6684 and a way to keep a snack handy
@@frodobaggins6684 I just can't believe nobody picked up on my heinous spelling error.
Or at least said anything more likely.
@@jamie7472 wait?? Even i didn't see it. What was it? Lol
"Retesting"
"The greatest snake that the world ever saw, was made possible by a warming planet..."
*dramatic pause*
Snakes don't have paws.
And what is happening rightnow? Getting more hotter and hotter. Maybe we should expect some gigantic reptiles emerging soon.
I've read and heard 2 cases of reticulated pythons who ate full grown human somewhere in Indonesia. One was in 2017 were a man was eaten, the other was in 2018 and a mid-aged woman was the victim.
@@fritzsalhay7657 it takes millions of years. Not only will we not survive giant predators, we probably wont even be around to see them arrive.
@@deeya maybe not titanoboa size, but warmer temperatures make reptiles grow faster; and snakes never stop growing throughout their life. So 30 foot snakes would become quite common. We probably won't live long enough to see the 50 foot ones though.
Amazing short documentary! I'm the "geology student" that discovered this fossil place. Thanks PBS Eons for this video.
You have done a great service to science and humanity as a whole. Thank you and congratulations!
thanks😄
Bull
Im glad that they use meters in length instead of school buses refrigerator and football field
I simply can't picture the snake if they don't tell me how many Toyota Corrolas it is long.
"I got mice in my attic"
>puts titanoboa in the attic
>no longer has an attic
Problem solved
I don't think your house would even be left at that point
Modern problems require prehistoric solutions.
@@MHG2000DK lmao😂
>Snake eats you
You don’t have an attic on your house at that point, Titanoboa has a large basement under its attic.
Climate Change is a thing?
Titanoboa: "I'll be back!"
*c l o n a t e c h a n g e*
Titanboa?
@Just a mental fellow I don't think there's any perfect dna of the titanaboa to do that
@@Retrenorium fixed 😅
*turns the thermostat all the way up* Snakes are so frickin rad
"it would be no help getting rid of the mice in my attic"
you have capybaras in your attic?
"Snakes will get bigger" might be a compelling argument for getting some people to act on climate change
@JZ's Best Friend thankfully most venomous snakes aren’t under pressure to get huge. Only constrictors like this bad boy. So for any one encounter you’ll only have to deal with one. Something to look forward to in the solar apocalypse.
When I heard that I turned off some lights and closed the window to preserve energy.
So basically I should boil lots of water, turn the heat on to max leave my car running, and start a really big fire. Well, now I now what my new year's resolution is!
no, we can’t let politicians be kaiju sized
@@southernrebelgamer7505 ur so cool I can’t even fathom
Since you said that a Titanoboa weighed about the same as a giraffe, how about a video on the evolution of Giraffes?
Yh, wtf caused that
Menko Monty I agree
they just stretch their neck like a certain tribe in asia
I’d watch that
I learned about this in a biology class - A lot of scientists theorized it had to do with reaching food or fighting for dominance, but giraffes also eat grass and low food just as happily as trees, and their necks are almost more of a liability when fighting each other. It turns out, it all has to do with the lady girraffes' preferences. The males are noticably larger, taller, and have longer necks than the females, and after decades of studies, scientists discovered that the females would consistently choose mates that had longer necks, making the strange girraffe neck mystery a simple result of sexual selection.
Similar to how elk have huge, heavy antlers, or peacocks flashy, ungainly tails. The difference being, spinal/bone structure is not something that's easy to concisely differentiate with sexual dimorphism in mammals, which is why the females are also affected by the selection.
Global Warming: *happens*
Titanaboa: I have returned
Felix Miranda Titanoboa has entered the chat
Not enough oxygen... Oxygen also a huge factor for the Giants back then
They wouldn’t evolve caus were cutting down all the rainforests
World: I thought you were dead
Titanaboa: My death was greatly exaggerated
@J P that was an overestimate spider 😂
"We are all the product of our environment"
Reason why we need to protect our environment.
uhh thats what your doing remember Humans evolved not in a jungle but in a tree less waist land well some trees and survived animals with almost no protections but there own brain. If you think about it is a revnge story
@@piglin469 What are you on about?
@@criert135 YOU evolved in asavanah not a jungle
@@piglin469revenge story? Evolution wasn’t a deliberate planned process, wherever we evolved from wasn’t actively planning on our downfall so we have nothing to “revenge” against. We are still products of an environment
2:39 I really appreciate the editor using the snake in the timeline instead of the usual line they use, it's the little details that make everything better :)
Eons: Look at this pretty animal
Me: Okay I'm looking at it.
Eons: Isn't it pretty?
Me: yeah, it's very pretty!
Eons: Are you now emotionally attached to this magnificent animal?
Me: Oh wait hang on don't you dare -
Eons: Here's how they went extinct. They're all dead now.
r/emojipolice
*sobs*
R/stupidcomments, don't know if I made that up or not but ok 🤣🤣
Ok
Fascinating video. It's hard to comprehend how enormous these guys would have been. These creatures must have been absolutely incredible to see. I'm both sad and relieved that they're not around anymore....
I'm just relieved! 😳
6:28 "It would be of no help getting the mice out of my attic "
#1 extinct
#2 bigger than your attic
#3 you are snack-sized
Good point!
“That’s like 7 of me, and me have a lot of questions”. Fine, take my thumbs up
The one question I've had about Titanoboa for a while was how acidic was its stomach? That's an often overlooked question about constrictors that limits their body size today that surely would have been in effect back then too because of the fundamental nature of how snakes eat. Since snakes swallow their food whole and don't ingest gastoliths unlike many other reptiles their digestion relies entirely on their stomach secretions, which have to dissolve a body through mostly undamaged skin that by default is much more durable than muscle tissue. At the same time, the gut bacteria within the snakes's freshly dead lunch will now start decomposing and rotting the body from the inside so the snake's digestive juices need to reach these deep internal areas quickly and neutralize them before any dangerous food poison compounds can form. Essentially, the snake needs to digest entire animals faster than they can rot from the inside, and what kind of pH did Tiranoboa need to accomplish that?
6:20 As stated, it probably ate mostly large fish.
Its stomach was about as acidic as hmmmm..... a t-rex?
I wonder if, to get around that problem, Titanoboa ate more relatively small fish, rather than eating larger prey items that it could have trouble digesting.
@@slwrabbits
Like a Plesiosaur.
Wouldn't the process of chemical digestion be accelerated by the warmer climate back then?
“because if snakes have anything, it’s a lot of backbone.”
just like my ex.
Damn titanoboas keeping knocking me out at the swamp...
I like to just think of the things that never fossilized , we get scraps
So many species that we'll never know of, because they lived in environments not conducive to fossilization. :(
Or all the stuff the did get fossilized but will never be discovered because it's somewhere too remote, too deep, or no one ever thinks to look. We get the scraps of the scraps.
Or all the fossils accidentally or purposefully destroyed by ignorant people over the course of history.
There could be a whole other world we never knew about. I thought an ornithomimid that urned into a duck therizinosaur was wierd, imagine what wacky bodies could have been made that just werent successful enough... man
dragons had to of existed
Weird thing:
In the Beast Wars cartoon, the episode "Dark Voyage" accidentally predicted Titanoboa.
nice
Oh man. The nostalgia. 😵
Or Titanoboa predicted Beast Wars
I forgot about that.
Hahahh....if I remember that snake was squeezing cheetor
As a snake owner I always get super pumped whenever snake themed videos pop up in my subscriptions. Thanks!
Personally, I'd be interested in looking at the evolution, as far as our understanding is currently, of venom & poison.
&, Because this ties in well with it sort of, the fossil record of fungus.
Thank you, Eons, you've reawakened a long-standing love for paleontology, that I haven't had the joy of learning about in years, with your videos.
That sounds nearly impossible to really ever be certain about. It's not like such fragile protein mixtures fossilize well. I suppose genetic analysis and "molecular clocks" could give some interesting ideas though.
@@patrickmccurry1563 My hypothesis is that certain cavities, particularly in the skull, COULD be analyzed to determine possible "sacks" or membranes that would secrete venom; poison would be harder to figure out due to the fact that it's usually secreted through skin & the fossil for _that_ is tiny.
i think i know the answer to this! apparently what happened is that a gene that produced pancreatic fluid at one point got “turned off” during cell replication but continued to evolve and mutate!
then at another point, when it was “turned on” again into expression is had migrated to a mouth gene! so now snakes were just spewing pancreatic fluid and then it evolved into venom!!! i don’t have any sources though so i could be way off
@@MildlyOCD There was a pretty infamous case where people claimed that they'd discovered a venomous dinosaur because it had grooves in its teeth. The fact that freaking baboons have similar grooves in their teeth proved underreported in the media.
@@elenatroiae what
"A Hot planet is what made Titanoboa"
Everyone as the earth heats up due to climate change: * *insert meme template of absolute horror* *
King Ghidorah 👏 😭
Sounds good to me
or excitement lol.
@RKaale 123 you know it was a joke right
OK, we’ll have to nuke the rainforest to cause mutant mega snakes and giant flying turtles...wait...did I forget my meds? Never mind...
These videos always make me wish I had a time machine. I'd love to be a field biologist in Paleocene Colombia, getting photos of Titanoboa and the other amazing creatures of that environment (from the safety of my elevated, climate-controlled hide).
Austalia: hold my drought
I was just wondering what the largest snake ever was! Glorious!
Species and individual. With how spotty the fossil record is, there's virtually no chance we ever will or be certain we do know if we get stupidly lucky enough to find them.
Second place and previous record holder was Gigantophis. Look it up. It wasn't as heavy or long as Titanoboa but twice as long as any living snake today. 33 feet or so.
33 feet of pure, bone crushing muscle.
*h e l l n a h*
It's likely Titanoboa was thickest at the middle of its body, which is probably why it'd have to spend most time in the water. Most of these drawings you see on Google images probably aren't accurate. Can you imagine a snake almost 3 feet wide at the thickest?
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Giddy
Please, do at least one episode just about the evolution of plants or some of their particular families
Imagine the evolution of carnivorous plants.
Yes please
YES!!!!!!!!!!
*YAAWWNN*
Yes please!!!
I feel like the presenter is trying to speak slower than before. I just want to thank him for the effort since my first language is not English and it's hard enough to follow with all the scientific terminology. This channel has so many fascinating videos about life before us, and I really appreciate the work done by everyone involved in making learning fun for all types of audiences.
Gotta get one of those in ark
Glad to see Titanoboa featured in Eons :) 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
Most of Colombia was beneath the sea before the Paleogene, so we have a serious dinosaur deficit. At least we have this exuberant rainforest Cerrejón formation.
Yesss, continue with that global warming of yours humans.
*Happy hissing noises
cosmicVox13 yeah, during the fingol wars
@cosmicVox13 No, silly, humans didn't exist back then. It was obviously the lizard people.
Captain Stroon how do you know for sure that humans didn’t exist back then? Humans could have existed but of course in different areas and they weren’t as many.
@@de_la_flav9775 Back then the mammals were still in the process diversifying to occupy the niches left by the dinosaurs. There weren't any primates yet, and if there were, they were like tarsiers or bushbabies and weren't advanced. So no, no hominids in Titanoboa Town.
Snake jazzz inrease
i feel ever so mildly betrayed by watching informative historical nature documentaries to feel smart and then hearing “me has a lot of questions” in the first 40 seconds of this video
love it
I love big snakes! I have a reticulated python and shes massive! I can't imagine a snake being over twice her size, that's insane!
I’m a simple man I see PBS eons I like
Same here.
Hoop Doodle too simple
but don't forget son, there is a someone up above.
@@opnavesea Steve Irwin?
I am so with that plan, fellow science enthusiast. Do me a favor and have the best of days
So if Titanoboa was a fish eater, does that mean that all the images of it eating small mammals and crocodiles are inaccurate?
Also I have to say PBS Eons always shows the best pictures of these ancient creatures
possibly it should be noted that animals will often eat more than just the food they are best equipped to eat so while it might not have regularly gone after them if it is hungry it probably wouldn't turn down an easy meal.
@@Dragrath1 White tailed deer are herbivores but will eat unguarded eggs and nestlings. A wild panda has also been seen eating carrion. If you can get any nutrition at all from free or easy food it would be foolish to refuse.
I would say its a case similar to false gharials or fishing cats: the animal has a lot of specialized features for hunting fish, but are also capable of hunting other prey when opportunity present itself
Judging by its jaw it probably was versatile and preyed on anything semi/fully aquatic.
I think it's possible that they might be opportunistic mammal/other small reptile eaters but still predominantly piscivorous if they have semi-aquatic lifestyle
Love your sense of humor. Keep it going....
Thanks , this is the first time that colombia is mentioned in this wonderful show . I am Colombian and I love this country .
I just wish I could go back to these times and see these animals myself
That didn't really work out for a lot of the characters on Primeval! (I do miss that show though.)
And become their lunch
Chances are they would see you first.
Or you can just wait till the temperature rises up again due to global warming and these animals come back
Personally I would love to see the chalicotherium myself :)
I’m still mad at “Jurassic World The Game” for nerfing my titaniaboas.
Haha yeah, ive modded my game no need to rely on it
I really love this channel. There are so many creatures and animals we have uncovered and to view their legacy through video is so fascinating! You'd imagine these creatures lives have been forgotten. Whether this snake in the far distant past knew they'd be known or not. Us through our cleverness, categorize and analyse their and our history. To not only have a record of the past but to better understand where we come from. Every single video is such a treat! Giving a platform for education is so important today. I hope to see more and more of the team's amazing work, Thank you PBS Eons!
When things get hot, some things grow thick and long 🤣
'cough' 'cough'🤭😄
"What did it eat?"= EVERYTHING 🤣
A warming climate leads to larger pythons?
*Florida has left the chat*
so the hybrid snakes were still there?
Me a Floridian: It's true. I don't even know if summer is just a season or the climate for how *Long* it has been
This has always been my favorite snake, I am amazed to see a video on it!!
Me (starts watching): The damn thing has to have spent 90% of it's time in water.
for some reason Blake's vibe in this video just really brightened my day, i think its the necklace
This is perfect for my snake oil business! I think I will sell some to Arthur Morgan
You already did to Ferrari no? 😆
Arthur is dead.
TB
I'd love to learn more about the evolution of the Amazon Rainforest sometime!!
I love this channel .....thank u for producing these content
Titanoboa was made possible by viewers like you. Thank you!
3:28 That's a Burmese python. Reticulated pythons aren't as heavy-bodied and grow longer.
Actually retics grow a lot larger and are considered the largest serpents in the world
@@brandonm30 Anacondas are the heaviest, retics are the longest. Doesnt change the fact they showed a picture of a burm and called it a retic.
Thank u
@@brandonm30 Yeah, if they grow long enough, they can be heavier than Burmese pythons. That's a fact. It's sort of case-by-case basis, wouldn't you say? It reminds me of polar bears vs. Kodiak bears. The bear you're looking at is the biggest bear you've ever seen. ;)
@@zachruby270 I forgot about anacondas...D'OH! How does one forget about anacondas?
Female green anacondas are heavier-bodied than Burmese pythons, but the males are smaller. A case could be made that, overall, Burmese pythons are more heavy-bodied, but such an argument would be non-productive. Let's just say that boids and pythons get freakishly huge: especially female green anacondas, Burmese pythons and reticulated pythons. Fair 'nuff? :)
The biggest snake that the world ever saw was made by viewers like you! Thank you!
Love learning about things I enjoy, thank you PBS 👍
Could you do an episode about the evolution of Venom?
The symbiote?
@@SuviTuuliAllan no like venomous creatures
Zintiel is venom.
Venom dropped into new York from outta space 👍
There are many documentaries on that band. 😉
PBS Eons: This snake came about from a warming climate.
Me: oh kinda like how our climate is warming right now
oh.... oh no
I want to reassure you by saying it most likely ate fish, but since humans have overfished the oceans, lakes, streams, I can't.
OH YES!!!
They evolved in a world that took tens of thousands of years to warm. Our world warmed in 50 years.
You must understand basic science, therefore you have no grasp of real world events or the world we live in today. I personally think you live under a box, people who believe in a so called “God” and undermine what 99% of scientist say is true.
OH YES!
I really like how this guy slowed down a bit
There was also another giant turtle that lived with Titanoboa, this was Carbonemys. It is believed to have eaten crocodiles. There was also a giant prehistoric lung fish aswell.
"...and I've got mice in my attic."
Ugh, so relatable.
"In the end, we're all products of our environments" :')
Millions of years later our descendants on mars: *"Yea about that we just discovered godzilla the biggest dinosaur radioactive dinosaur to have ever lived"*
I wish I live to see the day these beautiful huge snakes are back.
PBS EONS EASILY MY FAVORITE SHOW ON THE INTERNET/CZcams..
ALWAYS ENTERTAINING.&.EDUCATIONAL.!!
MY KIND OF SHOW FOR SURE..!!
#KEEPUPTHEGOODWORKPLZ👌👌
shhhhhh
can you stop screaming?!
@@ABC-yt1nq 😂😂😂
@@kvykimo
My Bad. Ima Loud Mouth.
Yup!
What a terrifying, magnificent creature. Oh to have seen one in action!
what I want to know is who is this mysterious Steve! xD
Good on ya Steve, every week without fail your always at the end brother.
I'd love to see an episode on the evolution of metamorphosis.
31°c - 35°c is like the average temperature in my city 💀
Where are you from, Australia?
Neh, I'm from Colombia and in my city that is as well the pretty much average temperature 😂😂😂
In Goiânia, in Goiás (Brazil state) that's about our avarege day temperature.
Hoss Delgado ok hoss lol
Mine too
The tounge of this snake might be bigger than my baby corn snake lmao
Another outstanding episode
This channel has been one of my favorites ever. Every time a video is posted it brings a smile to my face as I get to learn about another cool prehistoric organism or geological event
Thanks for all the wonderful, well documented content you have on this channel. I always learn something and I appreciate it greatly! And after watching so many of your videos, I'd like to thank all of your patreons, as well and especially STEVE.
Thank you for talking quickly and still be very informative
I love that you equate snake squeezing with a hug lol, I agree, snakes are cute af
Your evolution on the word 'niche' is noted and appreciated.
Greetings from someone who recently watched a few of your older videos.
Thanks for this episode! Just a few weeks ago I started wondering what the ecosystems just after the non-avian dinosaur extinction must have been like. How much is known about that time? I would love to hear more about it!
It would be fascinating to visit an ancient ecosystem such as this. Horrifying too, but still fascinating.
I saw a seven metre python once. But it was a carpet python in Australia. According to the locals they get truly massive in the hills out there and eat wallabies like popcorn. The one I saw rocked the treetops as it moved away and it looked like it could have swallowed me no problem.
That mice in the attic joke was such a good call-back lmao
I have been waiting for this episode ever since PBS Eons’ first episode!
this channel teaches me more in 8 minutes instead of 6 hours
Thank you for using Celcius!
Love the 3D animation you guys have done! Keep up with the amazing work!
Grew up watching PBS via rabbit-ear antenna, and still watching it on CZcams now. Great channel/info, keep it up!
Cool video! Blake's narration is great. (In earlier videos I think he spoke a bit too fast at times, and I commented on it then, so I figured I'd be fair and say it's all good now!)
thanks for everything
This is probably my favourite prehistoric animal! Thank you for doing a video about these majestic noodles!
I read the title as “ how the hot dog planted made the biggest snake”
"Made possible by"
Me: "skillshare. Wait"
Wow! I never knew that the climate had been changing so much for so long, makes me think that it might still be changing.
Beefcurtanz It absolutely still is! :)
I really love this channel, gets my brain going for all the things I need to get done in the day....your work must be very rewarding
the "reticulated python" --- shows picture of a burmese python
I don't know why, but I see people use the two interchangeably all the time (I'll admit that sometimes I do mistake the two)
I wonder why that is exactly (I mean, apart from the similar sizes and geographical location ofc)
@@sephikong8323 The Reticulated python is one of the Indo-Australian pythons and is in the genus Malayopython, a sister taxon to the Australo-Papuan pythons, and much more distantly related to the "true" pythons in the genus Python, such as the Burmese python (which is shown in this video misidentified as a Reticulated python). Snakes in genus Malayopython as well as the Australo-Papuan pythons have more pronounced labial heat-sensing pits lining the lips than those in genus Python.
You beat me to it Stanley...boy, is he gonna catch hell for that :)
How big are those compared to the Van Rossum's python?
yup it's shown a molurus, not reticulatus
ive been waiting for this episode for a long time ! still waiting for Purussaurus Brasiliensis and Saurophaganax Maximus. " when Alossaurus got huge " oh and Deinopithecus please do Deinopithecus. i love you PBS !
It just goes to show you that, no matter how much we warm up this planet, nature will come and go, with or without us.
I am really thankful that this channel has been made I can watch these videos all day for without getting bored One day I hope to be supporter