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The remains of an ancient 50-foot extinct snake that was said to be one of the largest that ever lived has been discovered in a mine in western India.

The Vasuki indicus specimen dates back 47 million years, during the Eocene Epoch, and is considered to have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.