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What is the biggest snake ever recorded?
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#41907. Asked by adamshone.
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Stew54
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It depends what you mean by the biggest.
According to Guinness World Records the longest snake in the world is the reticulated python (Python reticulates) of southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines, which regularly exceeds 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in). As far as Guinness is concerned the record length is 10 m (32 ft 9.5 in), for a specimen shot in Celebes, Indonesia, in 1912 though many books and websites will give accounts of longer reptiles than that.
The most massive snake is the anaconda, which is of similar length to the reticulated python but much bulkier. There are lots of competing claims for the heaviest. A well authenticated contender is a female anaconda shot in Brazil in c. 1960. It was 8.45m (27ft 9in) long, with a girth of 1.11m (44in), and was estimated to have weighed nearly 227Kg (500lb).
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