Oh, you beautiful muse 😄 These prehistoric sea had a much higher metabolism than modern pythons and anacondas & roamed seas, estuaries and possibly rivers, eating who knows what, and getting who knows how big (the biggest have been estimated at 9-12.3 m!

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Archaeophis also rules out some of the more outlandish depictions of Palaeophis, like ones with hindlimbs. Palaeophiids are not closely related to the basal snakes that had hindlimbs, so I'm not even sure how this idea got started.

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