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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What is the largest snake ever recorded?

The longest and heaviest snake to ever be held in captivity was a female reticulated python called Medusa. Held in the USA, Medusa reached 7.67 metres long and weighed 158.8 kilograms. Green anacondas (Eunectes murinus) are also exceptionally long snakes.
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Is there a snake bigger than Titanoboa?

The largest snake species today is the giant anaconda, and it can grow to around 15 feet in length — less than one-third of the size of your average Titanoboa. Anacondas rarely reach more than 20 feet in length or weigh more than 500 pounds.
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Who will win anaconda or Titanoboa?

The titanoboa far outweighs an anaconda, and is much longer than it too. This is certainly saying something, especially when you consider the fact that the anaconda is the largest snake in the world currently! The average green anaconda grows anywhere from 15-20 feet long and the titanoboa grows 40-50 feet in length.
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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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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 python bigger than an anaconda?

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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What's the biggest anaconda snake ever found?

THIS is the moment a gigantic 33-FEET-long anaconda was found by terrified builders on a construction site in Brazil. The huge reptile, which weighs in at at a whopping 63 stone, was discovered by the workers after they carried out a controlled explosion in the Cave of Altamira in the northern state of Para.
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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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Which is the most poisonous snake in the world?

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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Who would win King Cobra or anaconda?

An anaconda would win a fight against a king cobra.
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Who would win in a fight an anaconda or python?

An anaconda would win in a fight against a python. These two creatures are so similar in every facet except for length, thickness, and weight, and those are the ones we have to use to determine who would win if they faced off.
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Who would win cobra or python?

A king cobra has enough venom in a single bite to kill a whole elephant, while pythons are capable of constricting and killing prey far larger than them. Pythons are also capable of swimming and holding their breath for up to 30 minutes, while king cobras do not have this ability.
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Is the Titanoboa still alive?

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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Can a green anaconda eat a 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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How big is a Titanoboa?

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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Which animal kills anaconda?

Large groups of piranhas may gang up on an older, weaker anaconda near the end of its life. Caimans, which are smaller members of the alligator family may also prey on smaller or weaker anacondas, although, when the anaconda is full grown, it is known to prey on the caiman.
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Who is real 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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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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What would win in a fight an anaconda or a crocodile?

A crocodile would beat an anaconda in a fight. A fully grown crocodile is simply too big and strong for an anaconda to kill. Even in an ambush situation, the anaconda would struggle to wrap enough of its body around the crocodile to inhibit its movement and crush it.
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What snake kills the fastest?

The king cobra (Species: Ophiophagus hannah) can kill you the fastest of any snake. The reason a king cobra can kill a person so fast is because of the large volume of potent neurotoxic venom which stops nerves in the body from working.
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What is the fastest snake?

The fastest land snake is the aggressive black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) of southeastern, tropical Africa. The snake can reach speeds of 16-19 km/h (10-12 mph) in short bursts over level ground.
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