![]() In fact, one of the problems a growing croc "would have had to deal with is trying to get fish without irritating Titanoboa to the point where, rather than going for the fish, it'd go for a croc," quipped study leader Alex Hastings, a University of Florida graduate student in vertebrate paleontology who works with the school's Florida Museum of Natural History. That meant the two heavyweights likely duked it out over food, with young crocs sometimes becoming dinner for the snake, experts say. guajiraensis would've used its long snout to capture fish-also the favorite prey of Titanoboa. The 60-million-year-old Acherontisuchus guajiraensis lived alongside the snake and a bevy of other reptiles in an Amazon-like river system, which wove through one of Earth's earliest rain forests before eventually emptying into what's now the Caribbean Sea. (See pictures of Titanoboa, the biggest snake ever found.) ![]() A Colombian coal mine where scientists found the largest known snake species has offered up another gem: A new species of 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) prehistoric croc.
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