#gigantophis

[impulseimpact]

Daily vivosaur 147

Genus: gigantophis

an enormous snake that grew up to 6 meters, it learns the solo power skill allowing it to take on the enemy on its own, it even has an instant KO move with a very low chance of hitting

[eltstoruu]

"Remake" of my last art i guess

I made my last art by leaks, so that why i missed some details. I decided to "remake" it. I still don't like background, i prefer without background. If be honest i have NO IDEA what put to background. But i think I'll draw this skin in future more, with dynamic (ig) pose and cooler background! At least i hope so, but later

[fossillad123]

[ Tophis ]

"Tophis has Solo Power, which sharply raises its attack when fighting without allies. It can also learn an attack that can cause an instant KO, although the chance is low. "

[toxicmetalzine]

GIGANTOPHIS

Colombian black metal GIGANTOPHIS released new song "Del c​á​liz luciferino" Stream the song right here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/colombian

[dinosaur-discourse]

Titanoboa!

Although the dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, Earth still had no shortage of reptilian predators.  One of these lived in Colombia in South America, from 60 to 58 million years ago, and was the largest snake in the history of the world*.

Titanoboa (image by Nobu Tamura) could grow up to 42 feet long, and may have been capable of getting even bigger.  As its name suggests, it was a boa - or, more scientifically, a boid, belonging to the same group of snakes as modern tree boas and anacondas.

(Image by Jason Bourque.)

When Titanoboa fossils were first discovered in 2009, it was believed to have been an apex predator.  Numerous sensationalist news articles were published, describing Titanoboa as the monster-king of the Colombian jungles who could totally have beaten up T. rex, except T. rex was so scared when he heard about Titanoboa that he went extinct just so he wouldn’t have to fight it!

However, later studies proved that this was not the case.   Although Titanoboa was quite massive, and definitely carnivorous, it was probably not a hunter of large land animals.  Instead, it was probably a fish-eater, and in that regard, it is unique among the boids.  However, the animal’s massive size would probably have allowed it to snack on the occasional crocodile, as pictured in the Smithsonian’s reconstruction.

In ARK: Survival Evolved, it has a frilled lizard’s neck frill, for some reason.

Prior to the discovery of Titanoboa, the largest known snake was Gigantophis, discovered in Egypt in 1901 - although at a maximum estimated size of 30 to 35 feet, it was only marginally larger than the biggest modern-day snakes.  Gigantophis lived about 20 million years later than Titanoboa, and was part of an entirely different family of snakes, the now-extinct Madtsoiidae.  Unlike Titanoboa, the madtsoiids preyed on land animals, killing them via constriction.

Image by lizardman22.

(Edit: The original image in this post was by James Gurney, but it was actually an image of Titanoboa, rather than Gigantophis.  

*If you don’t count mosasaurs, which some paleontologists do.  But that deserves a post of its own...

[texasbeernerd]

Gigantophis Imperial India Pale Ale by Rogness Brewing Co.

Forrest and Diane Rogness are the owners of the successful and famous, in beer circles at least, homebrew supply store Austin Home Brew Supply. I guess after many years of giving people the means to make their own beer they decided to do it themselves professionally, seeing as they already knew all about what was needed. The microbrewery was initially funded through Kickstarter and their beers' grand debut came in March of 2012. As an aside, I'd like to say that Kickstarter is an amazing thing. It gives creative people the means to realize their idea and at the same time builds an audience/customer base for said creative idea through the crowd-funding system. Now back to the beer. Gigantophis, named after a 33 foot long prehistoric snake that lived in the Sahara Desert 40 million years ago, is the only IPA they have for sale in stores so far. It is an imperial IPA and the qualities of that supercharged version of the India Pale Ale show up as they should. The alcohol content is 9 percent and the IBU is 103. That's a lot of hops. The bitterness manifests instantly and lingers on through the swallow and even a bit after. The hop flavor is a mix of citrus and pine but leans towards the pine towards the finish. There's a bit of an alcoholic bite but for the most part it's masked pretty well. I could certainly feel it in my head as I was drinking but it wasn't on the taste, which is good. I don't want beer to resemble liquor too much. The color is actually quite dark for an IPA, even an imperial one. It more closely resembles a brown ale in that respect, though the golden brown and more transparent aspects of the "standard" IPA color do shine through a bit. The only complaint I have about Gigantophis is that despite the wonderful hoppiness, the flavor of the beer as a whole is blander than I expected. I want something bolder from Imperial IPAs. But Gigantophis is still far from being a bad beer and I look forward to trying other Rogness brews as I'm proud to support the fast-growing craft brewing industry in Austin (Rogness Brewing Co. is located in Pflugerville but it still counts) and Texas as a whole.