In a remarkable unearthing, palaeontologists have discovered a massive fossil of a snake in Gujarat being reported as the ‘largest snake’ that ever existed! The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee had reported that the snake had likely lived 47 million years ago during the middle Eocene period. The reptile was around 49 feet long and weighed around 1000 kgs. The fossil was found in Kutch of Gujarat and the reptile was named Vasuki Indicus, after the King of Snakes, Vasuki, mentioned in Indian Mythology. Professor Sunil Bajpai and Post-doctoral researcher Debajit Datta from IIT, Roorkee described that they stumbled upon 27 pieces of a “partial, well-preserved” vertebral column of the large snake. The snake is estimated to be of longer length than a T-Rex dinosaur and also longer than the Titanoboa which is known to be the longest snake to ever exist. The large size of the reptile suggested that it was a slow-moving ambush predator, similar to modern anacondas. Vasuki Indicus belonged to the Madtsoiidae family. This family of snakes was also found in Europe and Africa. The reptile survived in a warm geological interval. Researchers suggest that the growth of its size could have also resulted from the contribution of the warm tropical temperature of the Gondwanaland. Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of snakes that thrived in the Indian subcontinent over a span of 100 million years, from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Pleistocene.