Blue Racer Snakes

A large gray or blue snake with smooth scales. The head is usually darker than the body, though the chin and throat are white. The belly is light blue or white. Young racers are grayish, with a pattern of darker blotches and spots. Adults reach lengths of 4 to 6 feet. Racers inhabit a variety of places, including open woods, meadows, hedge rows, marshes, and weedy lake edges. They are alert, active snakes that may climb into low bushes to escape enemies. These snakes feed on rodents, frogs, smaller snakes, birds, and insects. Although they will bite if cornered or grabbed, racers are not venomous.

Boa Constrictor

Boa Constrictors have a patterns on their backs which are great for camouflage in the woods and rainforests they live in. Depending on their biome they can have very different coulours ranging from a dark brown to a bright red. They can have ovals, diamonds, lines and zigzag patterns. Boas are like their couisins the anacondas are good swimmers but still prefer to stay on land however they are much smaller only reaching up to 5 meteres and only weigh 45 kilograms. They live in hollow trees or abandoned mammal burrows. Their jaws contain 3 lines of hooked teeth used to grab their prey while wrapping their bodys around them and waiting for them to suffocate this strategy was also used by the Titanoboa their ancestor.

Titanoboa (Titanoboa Cerrejonensis)

The Titanoboa lived 60-50 million years ago in the Paleocene Epoch a ten million year event following immedeately after the dinosaur extinction event , it is the largest longest and heaviest snake we know of that ever existed measuring up to an astounding 15 meteres and weighing 1,135 kg and supplanting the previous record holder Gigantophis. Its fossils were found in columbia.