How to View Titanoboa in 3D
Titanoboa 3D Viewer runs a Paleocene giant boid snake - not a dinosaur - length about 12.8 m mean (up to 14.3 m), mass about 1135 kg. Drag, zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body region.
Open the Titanoboa page and take the camera
Open the Titanoboa 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Titanoboa with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural aquatic silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Titanoboa controls under the canvas
Under the Titanoboa canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest mean length ratio used by the viewer (12.8 m; upper published length about 14.3 m stays disclosed)
Read the Titanoboa facts panel and click a body part
The Titanoboa facts panel lists length about 12.8 m mean (up to about 14.3 m; Head et al. 2009), mid-body height about 0.7-1.0 m (panel 0.8 m), mass about 1135 kg mean (about 730-1819 kg range; Head et al. 2009), the Paleocene window about 60-58 million years ago in the Cerrejon Formation of Colombia, carnivore diet (aquatic predator; anaconda-like ecology often inferred), and naming from Head et al. 2009 (type species T. cerrejonensis). A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton. Titanoboa was a giant boid snake, not a dinosaur - it lived after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. For another non-dinosaur marine animal on this site see the Mosasaurus 3D Viewer.
What the Titanoboa how-to guide is not
The Titanoboa how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not claim Titanoboa was a dinosaur, does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, does not invent game score or win states, and does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Titanoboa size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Titanoboa 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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