Still, even a small person is quite a mouthful for the longest snake in the world, and the main reason the two individuals would ever bother one another is likely the overlap of the two habitats as more rainforest is being cut down.

They’re non-venomous, but they’re big enough to eat a small person, and have, in fact, done so.

In the wild, these animals are doing quite well on a species level, despite being hunted for the pet trade and in traditional medicine. However, like many claims, this hasn’t been verified. In 2003, a zoo in Curugsewu, central Java, claimed to have a reticulated python that measured 14.85m (49ft) long with a body circumference of 85cm (almost three feet) and weighing 447kg (70 stone, 3lbs). There have been other claims of much larger specimens as well. It measured 10m (32ft), but there is little evidence to back this up considering the date. The Guiness World Records has a specimen shot in Celebes, Indonesia in 1912 as the longest snake ever recorded. The reticulated python, Python reticulatus has an average length of around 5-7 meters (around 20ft) but it is known to reach lengths of up to 7.67 meters (25’2’), as is the case in the longest ever reliably measured. The largest snake is a colossal constrictor found in South-East Asia. Reticulated Python (Length: 7.67m / 25.2ft) Here are the longest snakes on land, in water, and with a nasty bite. We’ll break these up into three categories because each one has a different answer. But what is the biggest snake in the world? Let’s find out! There are numerous claims about how large they can grow, and myth and film frequently depict them as monster-like in length. Thanks to a gene that allows a lot more ribs to be produced during their development as embryos, snakes come out all stretched and long. While elongations in the giraffe world are a product of larger bones, in snakes, it’s a result of many more of them. They’re also strangely elongated no other vertebrate animal has proportions quite like them. That alone makes them pretty outstanding. Snakes are tetrapods (four-legs) with no legs. They’re the perfect blend of weird, frightening, and beautiful, and this must be why seemingly every culture on the planet has one or more legends about them. Snakes are probably the most infamous animal on earth.

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