How big is the largest snake?

Growing up to 30 feet long, the reticulated python
reticulated python
Malayopython reticulatus

It is an excellent swimmer, has been reported far out at sea, and has colonized many small islands within its range. It is among the three heaviest snakes. Like all pythons, it is a non-venomous constrictor.
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(Python reticulatus) of southeastern Asia and the East Indies is the longest snake in the world. These giants have an average weight of 250 pounds, but the largest known specimen in existence weighs in at a whopping 350 pounds.
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How big is the largest snake ever found?

"It is eight metres in length and weighs about 250kg," Herisyam told The Guardian. Or more than 26 feet long and 550 pounds. 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.
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What is the largest snake in history?

The only known species is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis garstini.
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Which is bigger anaconda or python?

An anaconda is shorter than a python, growing up to 22 feet but weighing in at up to 550lbs. The anaconda is a huge reptile that has a diameter of up to 12 inches; that's massive! The python is longer, but the anaconda is thicker and much heavier, so it gets the advantage.
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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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Who would win King Cobra or anaconda?

An anaconda would win a fight against a king cobra.
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Are giant anacondas real?

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant anaconda, common anaconda, common water boa or sucuri, is a boa species found in South America. It is the heaviest and one of the longest known extant snake species. Like all boas, it is a non-venomous constrictor.
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Is a Titanoboa bigger than a anaconda?

Titanoboas are significantly larger than anacondas, despite anacondas being the largest living snake known to man.
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How big can anacondas get?

They can reach lengths of 30 feet (9 meters), diameters of 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) and can weigh 550 pounds (250 kilograms). Green anacondas are native to the northern regions of South America.
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Has a snake ever eaten a human?

Is this the first time a python has eaten a human? No. In 2002, a 10-year-old boy was reportedly swallowed by a rock python in South Africa. And in March last year - also in Sulawesi - a farmer was swallowed by a 7m-long python.
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How big is the largest anaconda?

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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Did snakes exist with dinosaurs?

The earliest known snake fossils date the reptiles to between 140 to 167 million years ago, putting their arrival smack in the middle of the dinosaur era when the big beasts were dominant on land as some of the fiercest and more fearsome predators.
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What animals eat anacondas?

At the top of the food chain, adult anacondas have no natural predators. The biggest threat to their survival is human fear; many anacondas are killed by people worried that the enormous snake will attack.
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Do anacondas eat jaguars?

Anacondas eat a variety of animals. "Small snakes may take rodents, lizards and fish, while adult snakes may take caiman, capybara or even jaguar," Heyborne said. Female anacondas sometimes eat males. Once the prey is dead, anacondas swallow it whole.
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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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Who would win Titanoboa or 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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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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Is Medusa the snake still alive?

Medusa is currently housed at “The Edge of Hell Haunted House” in Kansas City.
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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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Who would win a black mamba or a king cobra?

A combination of factors like the quantity of venom and bigger size gives the king cobra an upper hand. While the black mamba can put up a fight with the king cobra easily, the king cobra would win with no doubt.
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Who is the king of the snake?

The king cobra—one of the most venomous snakes on the planet—can literally "stand up" and look a full-grown person in the eye.
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