00:00Science calls this snake Chycantophis, and it was truly immense.
00:22Certainly big enough to swallow me, but would it have eaten human beings?
00:29It might well have done if we had both been around at the same time, but it lived 40 million
00:48years ago and had become extinct long before human beings appeared on Earth.
00:54So maybe it preyed on dinosaurs?
00:59Well, no.
01:01Dinosaurs are even older than Chycantophis and disappeared some 25 million years before
01:08it evolved.
01:13In that case, what about mammals such as sheep or deer?
01:21No.
01:22At least, not modern mammals like these.
01:32How could Chycantophis tackle one of these?
01:39Well, it didn't use venom to kill its prey.
01:45We know, from its massive size, that it must have been a constrictor.
01:54Constrictors, having seized an animal with their jaws, wrap their coils around their prey,
02:00and squeezed so hard, they stop their victim's heart, and it dies within a few minutes.
02:13I wonder if he realizes that his dinner tonight is a fiberglass model.
02:20The Licholas is also playing atviock
02:27so he's not applying.
02:29Let her go into the Licholas
02:32Backslips
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