{"id":890,"date":"2009-02-04T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=890"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:39:19","slug":"my-titanoboa-beats-your-backward-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"My Titanoboa beats your backward whale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan, your backward whale <\/a>is wimpy. Yes, you read that right. Wimpy!<\/p>\n

The University of Florida presents Titanoboa<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Partial skeletons of a new giant, boa constrictor-like snake named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Titanoboa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d found in Colombia by an international team of scientists and now at the University of Florida are estimated to be 42 to 45 feet long, the length of the T-Rex \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d displayed at Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Field Museum, said Jonathan Bloch, a UF vertebrate paleontologist who co-led the expedition with Carlos Jaramillo, a paleobotanist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.<\/p>\n

Researchers say the extinct snake was even larger than the wildest dreams of directors of modern horror movies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Crikey! Short video story here<\/a>. Some pictures here<\/a>. Make sure to check out that last picture, which is an artist’s depiction of the snake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan, your backward whale is wimpy. Yes, you read that right. Wimpy! The University of Florida presents Titanoboa! Partial skeletons of a new giant, boa constrictor-like snake named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Titanoboa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d found in Colombia by an international team of scientists and now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-em","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":889,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=889","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":0},"title":"The Backward Whale","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"February 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you take a look at a whale or dolphin\u00e2\u20ac\u201cany whale or dolphin anywhere on Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u201cit will follow certain rules. It will have a blowhole. It will not have legs. It will have horizontal tail flukes it raises and lowers to swim (as opposed to fish that bend from side\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=889#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=712","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":1},"title":"Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Scientifique Gainesville report","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science secretary Mary Bahr provided the following report on the recent Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Scientifique, Gainesville. ------------------------------ We had about 85 people show up for our tours of the Museum fossil hall and the following discussion that Kevin Folta, Joe Meert, and Johnathan Bloch started with their fascinating presentations.\u00c2\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Science Cafes"","block_context":{"text":"Science Cafes","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1561,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1561","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":2},"title":"Climate Change Workshop at the Florida Aquarium","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"May 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Florida Aquarium, in partnership with the University of South Florida's NSF funded Coastal Areas Climate Change Education (CACCE), is hosting a climate change education workshop\/meeting on Wednesday June 6 from 10AM to 4PM at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. The meeting will continue to build a statewide climate change\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=698","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":3},"title":"Gainesville event: Evidence for Evolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Scientifique Gainesville presents ... Evidence for Evolution: A Tour of Fossil Hall and Panel Discussion Saturday, September 13 1:30 pm to 4:30pm Florida Natural History Museum and Harn Art Museum Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Dr. Bruce MacFadden, Florida Museum Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, and graduate students will lead a tour of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Science Cafes"","block_context":{"text":"Science Cafes","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1429,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1429","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":4},"title":"University System Chancellor Touts STEM Classes of Florida’s Economic Plan","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"October 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00c2\u00a0Frank T. Brogan, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, said in a\u00c2\u00a0impassioned talk Wednesday,that it was time for Florida to \"grow up\"touting a growing focus on STEM classes as a move toward that goal. Speaking at the 2011 Florida STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) Summit, Brogan rallied\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1090,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1090","url_meta":{"origin":890,"position":5},"title":"High-school science achievement","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Cottle, a professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Physics at Florida State University,has a nice Op Ed in the Tallahassee Democrate today. Dr Cottle concludes \"The concerns that the college science faculty have about science education in Florida extend far beyond the limits of graduation requirements and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}