Titanoboa vs Deinosuchus

Deinosuchus takes this so easily it isn't even funny. I think a lot of people embellish Titanoboa because of its length alone, but people forget that Titanoboa only weighed about 2500 pounds. The largest meal ever eaten by a python was a deer which weighed 59 kg (or according to some sources, a pig which weighed 60 kg). The snake that swallowed the pig was about 140 kg. Thus, doing a simple calculation and scaling up that python to Titanoboa's size, you'd see that the limit of Titanoboa's prey would actually be ~1000 pound animals. Thus, a 2+ ton croc is perfectly safe from being eating. This is what we would expect anyway, as anacondas and pythons can't eat fully-grown crocodiles anyway. Or should I remind you guys of this snake which tried to eat a 7-foot juvenile:

Dec 9, 2013 16:52:38 GMT Rexog said:

Dec 8, 2013 21:26:31 GMT Theropod said:

Rexog could you please show evidence? Titanoboa got incredibly overrated by the Smithsonian Channel. Also what specie is this? Just wondering, it doesn't really matter. Even the smaller Deinosuchus specie wins

I dont have evidence actually, but I can support this theory, raptorx863 said that the largest animal a pithon eat was a 59kg deer, but the largest animal that a anaconda have devoured was a adult cow, and a man was also swallowed, so, maybe Titanoboa could swallow a much larger animal. But the question here is not whether the Titanoboa could swallow the Deinosuchus, but if it could smash its bones

There are SOO many flaws with this statement... -_-

1) Anaconda can CANNOT eat cows, that is WAY out of their swallowing range. You do realize that an average cow weighs up to 1000 pounds right? A Titanoboa might be able to eat that, but not an anaconda. The largest animal an anaconda ever ate was a fairly large domestic goat; tall tales of larger sized animals are all hoaxes or made-up stories.

2) Adults humans have been attacked and killed by pythons on occasion, but there has NEVER been a recorded case of a snake successfully swallowing a human. The closest one got was a 6.65 meter python which attacked and killed 29 year-old man Ee Heng Chun in Malaysia. The snake attempted to swallow him, but failed to complete its swallowing as police came and scared it off before later killing it.

3) Snakes don't kill by smashing bones, indeed prey items found in snake stomachs rarely show any broken bones. The exact method of killing by a constrictor is actually still poorly understood, but the leading idea is that they kill their prey through suffocation by preventing the prey's lungs from expanding. If I'm remembering correctly, there was a study recently which finally proved this to be the case, but I have to find it... -_-

4) At SVP, one of the presentations talking about turtles found in the Cerrejón Formation also featured a short segment seeing if Titanoboa could successfully crush those turtle's shells (just as a fun project). They found that Titanoboa would be completely unable to even crack the shells of Stupendemys or Cerrejonemys, two of the giant turtles in the area, and directly contradictory to what nonsense was stated on the Smithsonian channel about it being as powerful as 3 Eifel Towers. (WTF?)

Thus, it seems clear to me that Titanoboa was unable to feed on or probably ever kill large crocodilians, whether it be the ones in its habitat or Deinosuchus. Like I said, people REALLY embellish Titanoboa's abilities. True it could probably swallow a cow or some of the smaller crocodiles in its environment, but no way was it capable of taking down anything that was Deinosuchus-size...