{"id":63426,"date":"2024-04-19T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/18\/fossils-largest-snake-found-western-india"},"modified":"2024-04-19T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:46:20","slug":"fossil-of-largest-snake-to-have-ever-existed-found-in-western-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63426","title":{"rendered":"Fossil of \u2018largest snake to have ever existed\u2019 found in western India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists estimate <em>Vasuki indicus<\/em> was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey<\/p>\n<p>Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length \u2013 longer than a T rex.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as they would have been when the reptile was alive. They said the snake, which they named <em>Vasuki indicus<\/em>, would have looked like a large python and would not have been venomous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/18\/fossils-largest-snake-found-western-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its preyFossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,3089,1504,62,299,2258,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-evolution","category-fossils","category-india","category-science","category-snakes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63427,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426\/revisions\/63427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}