The boa constrictor-like beasts, aptly named Titanoboas, weighed more than one and a quarter tonnes and measured at least 13m long from nose to tip. At their widest, the snakes would have come up to the waist of an adult human.

The partial skeletons of eight individuals were uncovered at the site, alongside the fossilised remains of what may have once have been the creatures' dinner: a 2m-long giant turtle and an ancient ancestor of the modern crocodile.

The fossils were encased in rock dating back 60m years, and so give scientists an unprecedented insight into the large animals that ruled the tropics after the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65m years ago.

The largest living snakes today are the giant anaconda and reticulated python, though these only rarely grow to 9m long.

Story of the snake - watch here.

25. Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
24. But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
23. Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here’s the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won’t ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.
22. Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
21. Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman’s bottom? That’s right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.
20. All my life I’ve had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
19. If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can’t speak English.
18. I’m having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
17. How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
16. Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
15. So, we meet at last, whoever you are.
14. If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.
13. Well, it’s 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
12. Homer: [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay] Hee hee! Look at this country! ‘You are gay.’
11. Homer: [Meeting Aliens] Please don’t eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
10. Scully: Homer, we’re going to ask you a few simple yes or nquestions. Do you understand? Homer: Yes. (lie dectector blows up)
9. What’s a wedding? Webster’s dictionary describes it as the act of removing weeds from one’s garden.
8. Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don’t show up tomorrow don’t bother showing up on Monday. Homer: Woo-hoo. Four-day weekend.
7. I’m not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I’m going to Hell?
6. I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.
5. I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
4. Maybe, just once, someone will call me ‘Sir’ without adding, ‘You’re making a scene.’
3. I’m in no condition to drive…wait! I shouldn’t listen to myself, I’m drunk!
2. ‘To Start Press Any Key’. Where’s the ANY key?
1. Operator! Give me the number for 911!

The shop worker from Guangzhiu, China, died moments after he put a new battery in his phone, it has been claimed.

It was believed that he may have just finished charging the battery and had put the phone in his breast pocket when it exploded.

China's daily Shin Min Daily News said the accident happened on Friday, Jan 30, at 7.30pm. An employee at the shop told local media that she heard a loud bang and saw her colleague lying on the floor of the shop in a pool of blood. The employee said the victim had recently changed the battery in his mobile phone.

Police are investigating what caused the explosion and whether the phone was counterfeit.

The make and model of the phone are not thought to be known.

Local reports said that this was the ninth recorded cellphone explosion in China since 2002.

The Shin Min daily News published advice for consumers on how to avoid being hurt by exploding mobile phones, following the latest incident.

Some of the tips were:

• Always use original batteries.

• Do not expose your mobile phone to high temperatures, and avoid exposing it to direct sunlight.

• Avoid long phone conversations.

After six months of planning and construction, BlueWater Day Spa Ortigas Avenue Branch has now opened its doors. It’s a 621 m2 Spa, and can accommodate 55 people at a given time.The spa is equipped with a Spa Theatre, Couple’s Rooms, Common Rooms, Locker Rooms, and Sauna.

Spa Theatre
The Spa Theatre can accommodate 28 people at one time. It’s equipped with High Definition cinema projectors with Dolby Sorround 7.1 sounds that will make you feel like you’re inside the movie. The movies are all BlueRay movies, so the latest movie is the latest BlueRay Releases. It also has 28 Lazy boy type leather seat sofas which were custom made with the perfect reclined angle so that you can enjoy the treatment and the movie in the most relaxing way. This Theatre is open to rent for Private parties (Private Parties, Business Presentations, Business Conferences). Imagine ps3 party where in you get to play games on a 160 inch wide screen by 5 feet, or a Video karaoke party where you and a big group of friends can sing and party with the whole group.

Treatments that can be done here are Foot Reflex (With Back and Shoulder massage) and Foot Scrub only.

If Spa theatre is not your cup of tea then there are also private and common rooms to do any BlueWater Day Spa Treatments.

BlueWater Day Spa is also currently working on different unique projects, a Outdoor Spa Retreat hotel and a Spa within the greenfield.

Both words mean essentially the same thing. They provide the connotation of sitting around in expectation of something, but they are used differently.

"To wait" does not take an object. You could simply say, "I waited." If you want to explain what you're sitting around in expectation of, you could use "for":

I waited for my mom to be done.

"To await" does take an object. You cannot say, "I awaited." You have to follow it with more information; you cannot use "for" with "await."

I awaited my mom.

"To await" sounds a bit more formal than "to wait," so in normal conversation you should probably stick with "I waited for my mom."

The first Playboy magazine was published in December 1953, created by 27-year-old Hugh Hefner on his kitchen table.

It had Marilyn Monroe on the cover riding a circus elephant and Marilyn inside appearing in the center as "Sweetheart of the Month". This term was later changed to "Playmate of the Month".

The first edition consisted of well-written articles and a revolutionary nude photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe. This famous actress revealed her sexuality through a cover story and a nude spread inside the magazine.

Hefner’s “revolutionary idea” (AskMen.com) sparked interest in the younger generation for many reasons, including religion, family life, and rebellion. Christianity dominated America at mid-century, yet this magazine displaying sinful pictures appealed to the youth, raised on these conservative principles. The magazine unveiled the border between sin and purity, a sensitive subject around religion. The college-bound era was asking questions, and Hefner’s magazine provided answers.

The value of the famous first issue of Playboy magazine is determined by many factors. Not the least of which is condition. A near mint to mint copy of the first issue can easily command over $5,000 ! And if Hugh Hefner has signed the copy(even years later), you can add a few thousand dollars. Copies of this first issue of the very collectible Playboy magazine have changed hands for more than $15,000 ! WoW! However, there are copies in poor condition, that are available in the 100's of dollars. And these are in poor condition. Many have torn or half missing covers, no back cover, pages missing, very heavy soiling, etc. Yet they still have value. The vast majority of complete copies of the first issue sell in the range between $2,000 and $ 5,000 .

for more Playboy first edition pictures, check out here

In this special feature, we assess the prospects of 10 of the coolest gadgets that in 30 years' time may change our lives as much – or maybe more – than cellphones, iPods and the internet.

1. Super-vision (pictured)
The briefcase-sized Prism 200 from UK firm Cambridge Consultants can detect people through brick walls by firing off pulses of ultra-wideband radar and listening for returning echoes.

These pulses can pass through building materials over 40 centimetres thick, and spot activity over a range of up to 15 metres.

The device could be used to track people in hostage situations. However, it can only detect people when they move.

2. Invisibility
Few dreams have flipped from science fiction to fact as quickly as "invisibility cloaks".

The first functional cloak, in 2006, worked only for microwaves. But by last year a group at the University of California, Berkeley, constructed a material that is able to bend – rather than reflect – visible light backwards. A cloak of the material could steer light around an object to make it truly invisible.

3. Hands-free healing
Much of our medicine still involves inflicting a fair amount of damage to the body – for example from surgery – en route to healing it. But new forms of ultrasound, already used to look into the body, could change that.

Lawrence Crum at the University of Washington in Seattle has shown that high-intensity ultrasound can cauterise bleeding arteries. His company, Ultrasound Technology, has developed a hand-held device that allows surgeons to cut through blood-rich organs deep inside the body and cauterise the cut at the same time, all without breaking any skin.

4. Scaling walls
Engineers chasing the dream of scampering up walls like Spider-Man have turned to geckos for inspiration.

A robot built by US research firm SRI International has feet coated with material with a structure of grippy microscopic hairs similar to that of the real gecko.

5. You power
Portable gadgets have a big Achilles' heel – their batteries. But progress is being made towards having such devices harness the energy of their owners.

This clear material generates current when bent or squeezed, thanks to the zinc-oxide nanowires grown onto it. Medical implants would also benefit from a reduced reliance on batteries. This heart-powered pacemaker is just one example of the potential of tapping the body for power.

6. Jet packs
A rocket belt like the one was featured in the James Bond movie Thunderball in 1965, but this and later models all suffer from the same problem: they can't carry enough fuel to fly for more than around 30 seconds.

Alternative designs use ducted fans, like this Springtail from Trek Aerospace, or turbojets instead of rockets. These should be able to stay in the air for longer.

7. My other car is a spaceship
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will be will be carried to an altitude of 15 kilometres by a purpose-built launch plane before detaching and firing its rocket to take its eight-passenger crew to 100 kilometres above Earth at the edge of space.

8. Breathe underwater
Scuba divers have long envied fishes' ability to extract oxygen from water. In 2002, a diver spent 30 minutes in a swimming pool doing the same, thanks to an artificial gill built by Fuji Systems of Japan. It used silicon membranes that allowed oxygen, but not water, to pass into the device.

Sadly the amount of oxygen it produces is barely enough to sustain a human. Unfortunately seawater just doesn't contain a lot of the precious gas we need to survive.

9. You speak, it translates
This translation software, IraqComm, used by US troops in Iraq, is perhaps the closest we have to that today.

Speak into the microphone in Arabic and the software turns the phrases into written Arabic, before translating it into English. After the person has finished talking, a computer voice speaks the translation.

10. Smell-O-Vision
Our sense of smell has a strong hold on our emotions, so it is unsurprising that the movie industry has long sought to make it part of the silver screen experience.

Smell-O-Vision began in crude form in the 1950s and has recurred periodically ever since – most recently, in various scenes in select screenings of the film The New World. But preventing scents from mixing into an unintended cocktail, or lingering longer than a scene poses considerable challenges.

Japanese firm Sony may have the answer. A recent patent application described the idea of using ultrasound signals to directly stimulate selective parts of the brain to induce scents in a viewer or game player's mind. Unfortunately, to date, there has been no whiff of Sony producing the hardware required.