What is the biggest anaconda ever found?

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 snake ever recorded?

An average adult Titanoboa is estimated to have been 13 meters, or 42.7 feet, long and weigh approximately 1,135 kilograms, or 1.25 tons, says Britannica. In comparison to modern snakes, no living snake has ever been identified with a verifiable length over 9.6 meters, or around 31.5 feet.
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Is there a 100 foot snake?

A photo of '100-foot monster snake' that has surfaced on the Internet and is certainly fake has stirred up a lot of interest in recent days, reports the Telegraph Online.
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How tall is the tallest anaconda?

Green anacondas can grow to more than 29 feet, weigh more than 550 pounds, and measure more than 12 inches in diameter. Females are significantly larger than males. Other anaconda species, all from South America and all smaller than the green anaconda, are the yellow, dark-spotted, and Bolivian varieties.
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Where are the biggest anacondas?

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant emerald 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.
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What are anacondas bigger than king cobra?

Anacondas are far larger than king cobras. The average anaconda can grow up to 22ft, but the largest anaconda ever found was 33ft long and weighed over 800lbs. The king cobra can grow quite long, up to 19ft at its maximum. However, the snake's weight is a low 15lbs.
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Are there anacondas in Florida?

Florida Distribution

Green anacondas have had relatively few sightings in Florida with a majority of them found around central and north central Florida. They have been reported as far north and Gainesville and as far south as Miami near Everglades City.
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Can an anaconda crush a human?

Before an anaconda swallows you, it would kill you first. An anaconda is a constrictor snake, and kills by wrapping its body all around its prey and quickly crushing them to death with over 9,000 pounds of pressure. It would be a pretty quick end for you, but we know that's not how this show works.
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Are giant 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.
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How fast can an anaconda move?

While the snake can get its speed up to 8 km/h on land, it is twice as fast (16 km/h) under water. In fact, the anaconda can also hold its breath for up to 10 minutes while being below the water surface, which proves them to be pretty good divers.
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What is the biggest python ever seen?

The largest python ever was around 26.25 feet long (8 meters) and weighed roughly 550lbs (250kg). This record-breaking snake, a massive reticulated python was discovered in Malaysia in 2016. Pythons are constrictors, meaning they wrap themselves around prey and squeeze.
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What is the largest prehistoric snake ever found?

Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1,140 kilograms (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 meters (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip.
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What's the most poisonous snake on earth?

The inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is considered the most venomous snake in the world with a murine LD 50 value of 0.025 mg/kg SC.
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Has there ever been a 50 foot snake?

Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this snake was the top predator in the world's first tropical rainforest.
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What is the largest snake in Everglades?

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The largest snake found in the Everglades is the Burmese python. Burmese pythons can grow up to 20 feet long, and weigh over 100 pounds. Because they survive and reproduce so successfully in the Florida Everglades, they've become a real problem over the past four decades.
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Who can beat anaconda?

Anaconda Predators and Threats

However, the babies have predators that adult anacondas don't have, including birds and even jaguars. What is this? The biggest threat to the snakes in the world is humans because people routinely kill them out of fear and also have caught them to kill for their skin.
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What is a predator to anaconda?

Threats. 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. They are also hunted for their skin, which is turned into leather or used as decoration.
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What kills giant anaconda?

The main predators of anacondas are large mammals, such as jaguars, pumas, and caimans. These animals will often eat young anacondas, but adult anacondas are too large to be eaten by most predators. Humans also threaten anacondas, as they are sometimes hunted for their skin.
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Can a person outrun an anaconda?

1: If you are attacked by an Anaconda, do not run. The snake is faster than you are. Don't try to outrun it.
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What is the deadliest snake that comes from Florida?

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake.

Diamondbacks are the largest, most dangerous and most feared venomous Florida snake. They're not endangered, but dwindling habitat is a threat to them. If you come across a 6-foot rattler, keep in mind that it can strike from a distance of 4 feet, about as long as a typical shovel.
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What states do anacondas live in?

All anacondas live in South America east of the Andes. Green anacondas are found in the Brazilian Amazon basin, the Orinoco basin, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad and the Guianas, Jacksonville Zoo states.
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What is the biggest snake caught in United States?

The Burmese python is the largest invasive snake species ever caught in the United States, measuring 18 feet and 9 inches long, and weighing 104 pounds.
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