Gigantic SNAKE found in a infected site near Chernobyl

Can you believe it ?

When I saw this video appearing on a local newspaper I just couldn't believe it. Thought it was fake. But no, it really looks real, I've heard that some iron thieves found it in a pound laying dead near Chernobyl.

They immediately alerted the police which came and took him away.

Take a look at this video:

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Imagine a world with giant snakes as long as buses that are so fat that they can only just squeeze through the door. Turtles the size of SmartCars would hunt crocodiles, while horses as small as cats could be found roaming fields. This was Earth around 55 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who have been studying the link between the size of animals, reptiles and a change in climate.

Now scientists are warning massive reptiles and shrinking mammals could be found on our planet again if global warming takes hold. Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, last week told a conference in Gainesville that there is a clear link between global warming and unusual animal fossils.

Dr Bloch has been looking at a period known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum which occurred around 55 million years ago. At this time global temperatures rose by about 6 °C over a period of 200,000 years. Dr Bloch has seen evidence of these strange creature first hand. Last year he helped discover 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia.

The Carbonemys cofrinii, which means 'coal turtle', was part of a group of turtles known as pelomedusoides. The specimen's skull measured 24cm, and the shell was 172cm, or about 5 feet 7 inches, long. In addition to the turtle's huge size, the fossil also shows that this particular turtle had massive, powerful jaws that would have enabled the omnivore to eat anything nearby, such as other smaller turtles or even crocodiles. The giant version appeared five million years after the dinosaurs vanished, during a period when giant varieties of many different reptiles – including Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered – lived in this part of South America. Titanoboa was a killer snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow. Weighing an impressive 1.25 tons, it slithered around the tropical forests of South America 60million years ago, just five million years after the last dinosaurs were wiped out. At the time of the discovery Dr Bloch said: 'Truly enormous snakes really spark people's imagination, but reality has exceeded the fantasies of Hollywood. 'The snake that tried to eat Jennifer Lopez in the movie Anaconda was not as big as the one we found.'