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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Pratap Chakravarty

Fossils of colossal prehistoric snake named Vasuki unearthed in India

Precloacal vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, the longest snake skeleton ever found. © Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

India has unveiled the world’s largest prehistoric snake that was longer than a large school bus and roamed the planet 60 million years ago.

Palaeontologists found 27 fossil vertebrae of Vasuki indicus in a coalmine in the western state of Gujarat and used the well-preserved pieces to calculate the length of the colossus creature to be between 10.9 and 15.2 metres (49.86 feet).

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