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Is the titan python extinct?

The Titan python is extinct.

Titan python is a kind of as early as nearly 58 million years ago has been extinct boa is the largest known snake, is a close relative of the modern big boa, belongs to the snake class, is a metamorphic animal. Titan python body length up to 9 ~ 15 meters python, weighing about 1.135 tons, living in the tropical rainforest in northern Colombia, South America, climate change may be the main factor leading to its extinction.

In 2011, the journal Nature published the paper "Giant python found in Neotropical Palaeocene hints at a hotter equatorial past" by science scientist Jason J. Head et al. The paper stated that a giant fossilized snake named the Cerrejón Titan python.

Morphological features:

The titan python is the largest of eight of 28 snakes, the largest extant (as of April 2012), including the boa constrictor, which is about 7 meters long (the heaviest extant snake), and the reticulated python, which is about 8 meters long (the longest extant snake). The smallest surviving snake, the cara blind, is only 10 centimeters long.

The longest previously fossilized snake, an African python, was unearthed from Egypt and was 7 to 12 meters long. The Titan python was also like modern pythons, with females much larger than males.