This constrictor looks like it could have swallowed whole cows, no problem

A Missouri S&T grad recently discovered a giant tropical snake that would have made an anaconda look like an earthworm.

Carlos Jaramillo, a staff scientist/ paleontologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, found the fossilized remains of a super-sized snake skeleton while on an excavation in Colombia.

Jaramillo and colleagues reported their findings in the February 2009 issue of the journal Nature. The researchers named the gigantic snake Titanboa, which was probably the largest snake to ever slither the earth.

Dr. Jaramillo earned a master's degree in geology from S&T in 1995.

P.S. This isn't directly related, but does anyone remember that time when Jim wrestled the anaconda on Wild Kingdom?

P.P.S. We tried to find a photo of Jim wrestling the anaconda or of King Kong wrestling that giant fake snake in the original movie, but we didn't have any luck.