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Post by Scott on Feb 6, 2009 7:28:32 GMT -5
I just read an article about fossilized snake remains that were found in South America. The snake would have weighed 2,500 pounds and measured 42.7 feet nose to tail tip. At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips. That’s King Kong-esque. Sounds like something I want to stat up and throw at my players. Scientists believe it slithered around the planet between 58 and 60 million years ago.
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 6, 2009 9:27:26 GMT -5
I read the same thing. Did you note that the size is relative to the heat that it lived in? When it was so unbelievably hot back then it just thrived in larger sizes . Thats an interesting connection to dragon myths as they mostly started as giant snake stories. Another interesting thing is that size is the same size as Apep the snake enemy of Ra. Thats another big heat size connection. Weird.
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Post by Scott on Feb 6, 2009 9:45:57 GMT -5
The return of Apep, the true threat of global warming.
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 6, 2009 10:04:42 GMT -5
I don't know if I mentioned this but a while back when I was looking up the locations of the chimera myth. It said that the forest there is still known for spontaneous fire bursting out of the earth from the nearby volcano. They could have said it was just the volcano scaring the imaginations of the locals but why the snake/goat/lion thing? Remnant frilled and horned dinosaur thriving in super heat conditions? Could be...
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Post by GT on Feb 7, 2009 7:56:37 GMT -5
Or maybe a giant snake caught swallowing a goat...?
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 7, 2009 10:12:01 GMT -5
Or maybe a giant snake caught swallowing a goat...? You know that just reminded me of something I heard about 15 years ago being killed out in the woods, it was in the off season with winter frost on the mountain. It went on for an hour, it sounded like a cross between a cow being restrained in a stall but had the vibratory tone of a lion roar. I imagined it was a deer or a moose being picked off by the coyotes but it still sounded weird.
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 8, 2009 21:24:00 GMT -5
How totally Hyborian. There is now a gargantuan snake, that just ate some degenerate albino Suloise tribesman, in my Greyhawk campaign.
"Aieee!!! Beltar preserve me! No-o-o!!!"
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Post by GT on Feb 9, 2009 21:19:24 GMT -5
Hmmm... with the giant snakes, one might yell: "Ready... SET... Go!!" ;D
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Post by Merkholz on Feb 12, 2009 3:11:52 GMT -5
That is a really big, big snake. With all these discoveries still being made there is still a chance that the world will soon hear of the first large dragon skeleton found - with a long sword planted in its skull!
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Post by GT on Feb 12, 2009 16:50:37 GMT -5
But Marduk nailed Tiamat with his palu--staff of authority--everyone knows that! Heh!! ^__^
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Post by amalric on Feb 20, 2009 17:26:06 GMT -5
How totally Hyborian. There is now a gargantuan snake, that just ate some degenerate albino Suloise tribesman, in my Greyhawk campaign. Straight from "Lair of the IceWorm", which appeared in SSOC (UK edition) #20, or so.
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