pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. 3. enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (opposed to eternal). 4. Grammar. of, relating to, or expressing time: a temporal adjective, such as recent, or a temporal adverb, such as recently. of or relating to the tenses of a verb.
The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest, longest, and heaviest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis.
If an official measurement confirms this, it will be the longest snake on record. Currently, the Guinness World Record-holder is Medusa, a reticulated python who resides in Kansas City, Mo. When she was measured in 2011, she was 25 feet 2 inches long, roughly a little longer than a mid-sized car.