Are anacondas real?

Anacondas are semi aquatic snakes found in tropical South America, notable in the Amazon and different to pythons. They are some of the largest snakes in the world and are known for their swimming ability. “Anaconda” is the common name for the genus Eunectes, a genus of boa.
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Can anaconda eats human?

Adults are able to consume much larger animals, including deer, capybara, caimans and large birds. Females will sometimes cannibalize males, especially during breeding season. Due to their size, green anacondas are one of the few snakes capable of consuming a human, however this is extremely rare.
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Is the biggest anaconda real?

Green anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world. The heaviest anaconda ever recorded was 227 kilograms. This massive snake was 8.43 metres long, with a girth of 1.11 metres.
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What is the largest anaconda ever found?

The largest anaconda was 33 feet long, 3 feet across at its widest part, and weighed about 880lbs. This snake was discovered at a construction site in Brazil. Unfortunately, it either died in the controlled explosion after which they found the snake or by construction workers after it emerged.
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What snake is bigger than anaconda?

Not evaluated. A member of the boa family, South America's green anaconda is, pound for pound, the largest snake in the world. Its cousin, the reticulated python, can reach slightly greater lengths, but the enormous girth of the anaconda makes it almost twice as heavy.
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Do Titanoboa still exist?

Titanoboa, (Titanoboa cerrejonensis), extinct snake that lived during the Paleocene Epoch (66 million to 56 million years ago), considered to be the largest known member of the suborder Serpentes.
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Does Florida have anacondas?

Regulatory Status. Green anacondas are not native to Florida and are considered an invasive species due to their impacts to native wildlife.
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Is Medusa the snake still alive?

Medusa is currently housed at “The Edge of Hell Haunted House” in Kansas City.
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Are anacondas aggressive?

In the wild, green anacondas are not particularly aggressive. In Venezuela, they are captured easily during the day by herpetologists who, in small groups, merely walk up to the snakes and carry them off. Yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus).
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Is there a 100 foot snake?

The Daily Telegraph reports today that a 100ft (30m) snake has been spotted lurking in a river in Borneo, "sparking great concern among local communities".
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Whats the biggest snake ever found?

The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis garstini.
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Can anacondas swim?

Anacondas are semi aquatic snakes found in tropical South America, notable in the Amazon and different to pythons. They are some of the largest snakes in the world and are known for their swimming ability. “Anaconda” is the common name for the genus Eunectes, a genus of boa.
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Can anacondas be pets?

Captive-bred anacondas can make calm, tractable pets when raised properly, but they do get large, and their strength should be respected. This is not a species for anyone under the age of 18 or for anyone who does not have a reasonable amount of experience working with large constrictors.
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What happens if an anaconda eat you?

So your squishy and fleshy skin it would disappear pretty quickly. Your body would break down even further as you move through the snake's small intestine. That's due to the liver and pancreas secreting even stronger enzymes. Everything besides your hair and your nails will be digested at this point.
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What is the oldest snake alive?

The oldest living snake in captivity is Annie (South Africa, b. 1 July 1983) who was 37 years 317 days old as verified on 14 May 2021. Annie is a green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) from South Africa where she was owned by Paul Swires from 1989 until 2004, when he gave her to Montecasino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg.
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Can Medusa turn a woman into stone?

There are no recorded instances of Medusa turning a woman to stone.
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Do anacondas live in Texas?

During the last 30 years about 1 million giant constrictor snakes, including pythons and anacondas, have been imported to the United States, and there's now a thriving domestic breeding industry.
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Can you own an anaconda in the US?

Despite fierce opposition from the reptile industry, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced a ban on the import and interstate trade of the some of the largest snakes in the world.
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Who would win Titanoboa vs Megalodon?

Megalodon would win a fight against Titanoboa. The monster snake is a one-trick pony, and that trick isn't any good against a massive shark. Even if it managed to wrap about the shark, it's much too small to kill it. Megalodon was about 9 feet across and weighed 100,000lbs.
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What killed the Titanoboa?

Climate change contributed to the disappearance and extinction of most of Titanoboa. The declining global temperatures favored the emergence of smaller snakes. Larger reptiles were slowly erased and smaller snakes and other reptiles too over their places in the ecosystem.
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Which is bigger Titanoboa vs anaconda?

Using the length-weight ratios of a rock python and an anaconda as a guide, Head estimated that Titanoboa weighed in at over 1.3 tons. That's almost thirty times as heavy as the anaconda, the bulkiest species alive today.
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Which is stronger python or anaconda?

The anaconda does the exact same thing, but it has more crush force to put an end to the fight. The offensive capabilities of these two creatures are similar, but the anaconda is much stronger and gets the advantage.
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