it always comes back to the titanoboa doesn't it millions of views on this
channel come from our prehistoric mate put titanoboas snake you love that big
snake you love it so much you wish it was alive today right well you may want
to take a seat because the reality of living with a slippery apex predator may
not be exactly what you're looking for hello and welcome back to life's biggest
questions the channel that loves a cryptid as much as a real historical
monster the channel that enjoys talking about an SCP as much as we do talking
about alternate histories I'm your host Slytherin Queen Rebecca
forget I'm in this episode I am getting snakey as I asked what if the titanoboa
snake was still alive today before we get into this video I want to know have
you ever seen a snake I've seen a couple I actually never saw one when I lived in
England even though I know we have a few I've seen a whole load of snakes in
Canada I've seen grass snakes garter snakes and water snakes but luckily no
rattlesnakes because that Gillis never won a pretty small even in modern day
standards so I've never seen a snake that's like really scared me to let me
know your snake stories in the comment section down below though also to leave
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for links to our sources and for all of the information of people that went into
making this video stick around to the end because I'm gonna be reading out
some of your comments ok titanoboa babe what you got the titanoboa was first
discovered in the lowland tropics of northern Colombia in an area called
Harijan the photo of the outrageously big snake was discovered in a coal mine
nicely preserved these days the land is hot and arid but back when snake bay
lived an estimated 58 million years ago the land was forests ium swampy the
discovery was made in 2009 so really we haven't known about this snake for very
long at all in the 10 years in which we have studied it scientists have
concluded it was between 13 to 14 meters in length so roughly up to a maximum of
50 feet which is around the size of a house the snake was very heavy at 2,500
pounds around 1133 kilos if you guys need a
visual here is one as part of the titanoboa monster steak documentary the
Smithsonian channel asked sculptor Kevin Hockey to create a full-size replica of
this monster snake and this is what it looked like
horrifying right big boy snake the snake was non-venomous which is a big relief
am i right although it lets not breathe any premature sighs of relief because
actually this big snake is a hugger and by that I mean it will squeeze you until
you die the titanoboa was a constrictor thought
to be able to crush its prey with a force of four hundred pounds per square
inch that's some force beyond that it also has some super massive fangs all
the better for eating us these were sharp and needle-like teeth
for puncturing soft tissues and holding down prey so what kind of prey with the
titanoboa get down in it seems that the apex predator a live crocodiles
seriously this snake has no chill if they could eat a croc it would
absolutely eat you no question but the good news is is that snake e-baby
only had to eat once every six or so months and could easily last a year with
just one meal while there are Mane's of 28 of the snakes were found it is
impossible to know how big the population of titanoboas were they
survived for just a two million long period from 60 to 58 million years ago I
say just but humans have only been around for one-tenth of that time and
look how much damage we have done and respond oh how we've spawned the
titanoboa as we know lived in what was then a swampy part of Colombia it shares
some common traits with snakes but these days live in the Amazon I
don't think the titanoboa would be bothering the good people of the
Caribbean Colombia if it was still alive today simply because the conditions have
changed so much that it wouldn't be able to exist there perhaps the reason it
went extinct in the first place if the state didn't exist perhaps it too would
live in the Amazon and I'm sure it would have offered a few humans by now also
trekking in the Amazon would be literally the scariest activity you
could do ever perhaps in the past we would have sent our
vyx they're just to be killed off by the giant snake maybe today that'd be a
gruesome survivalist reality TV show in which people try and survive in the
wilderness without being set upon by giant snake as we know our feeble even
bones would have been easily crushed by the snake who would then swallow us
whole as a snack what about today could we take the snake down with bullets in
theory yes but we would need a lot of them the titanoboa is fast and fleshy
there's a good chance it could swipe at a human a fair distance away before even
got the chance to pull a trigger the Amazon is the world's largest tropical
forest covering much of Brazil extending into Colombia Peru and small amounts of
Venezuela Ecuador Bolivia Guyana and Suriname anyone watching from these
countries how do you feel about snakes if the snake was still alive and had
made the Amazon its home it would have had a lot of space to breathe it is
thought that the titanoboa lived in and around the water so perhaps the Amazon
River would be awash with massive snakes the Amazon River is of course 6,400
kilometers long so you know ah people of Colombia Brazil and Peru may find their
water sources pretty terrifying in fact had these snakes prevailed over the past
fifty eight million years instead of dying out perhaps cities like monas
which now has a population of two million simply would not exist if they
did then giant snakes would be a hazard well this city is absolutely bumping now
there have been population crashes in the Amazon history maybe there wouldn't
have been any at all if there were giant snakes lurking about I feel like the
main issue here is if the titanoboas snake was still alive what else would be
surviving and thriving if it was just the snakes alone I'm pretty sure we
could take them but what about all its prehistoric friends back when the
massive snake the size of a bus was raining terror
there were also giant reptiles and tatoes and massive crocodiles the
titanoboa likely died out because of changing temperatures and a lack of
proper habitats but paddy and its massive mate survived including a
seven-foot long lungfish one the conditions of the evolution of
humans may not have been right but to many who would have evolved but we
wouldn't have been top of the food chain maybe we would have been gobbled up
another way in which the titanoboa could be alive today is if we Jurassic Park do
like made a huge sewer of old extinct and scary animals four times gone by
scientists are indeed today working on bringing back really mammoths but if we
can learn anything from science fiction playing God and bringing things back
from the prehistoric dead is a bad idea not least because we may not have as
much control as we think we do so that is that riddle me this what would you do
if the titanoboa was still alive would we be living in some kind of crazy
Hollywood sci-fi fiction world where everyone screams and there are snakes
everywhere would we bang it up in the Chamber of Secrets but Voldemort users
is familiar would it speak Parseltongue what do you think it would be like to be
swallowed alive by such a beast this channel as always does leave a really
big bold taste in the mouth doesn't it before we go I'm just gonna read some
comments from Avery sent video this was of course an ICP flavored like Spears
questions I asked what if SCP five to seven was real bar main Richard said if
I had a dime for every SCP video I would pay for my therapy bill same made the
same dark vegetto said what if all of the extinct Ice Age species came back to
life mammoths Neanderthals sabertooths dire wolves is a very interesting
question in the previous video I did ask people what heads they would go for if
they could have an animal heads in replacement of their own because we like
asking fun questions here feral changeling said I'd have the head of a
unicorn people in biblical times used to call them destroyers of nations
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