Im sure EVERYONE has seen this ...

However, if you haven't ... Here's a link with video of the worlds largest snake. Verified by the Guiness officials. It's a 49 foot 983 pounds reticulated python. This thing is INSANE!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750

I'm speechless!! Wow that's crazy it most probably is the biggest in the world.

I think maybe you read the article too fast:

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Local government official Rachmat said the reticulated python measured 48 feet 8 inches and weighed in at 983 pounds.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 32 feet. The heaviest — a Burmese Python kept in Gurnee, Ill. — weighs 402 pounds, the book said on its Web site.

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Some "local official" delcared that the snake was 48' long, etc. While the Guinness website lists an entirely different snake as the biggest. Nowhere does it say (nor has it been said since) that Guinness confirmed their claims.

After the story had circulated for quite awhile and people tried to confirm those claims, the snake actually got a LOT shorter. In reality, it was somewhat less than 30' long.

Yes that story is as phony as a three dollar bill .

Man phony or not that thing is huge.

I used to work at the zoo where Baby lived.. the real largest snake in the world (by mass) 27' 403lb burmese python. Tame too! She's quite the chunker.

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Originally Posted by JLC

I think maybe you read the article too fast:





Some "local official" delcared that the snake was 48' long, etc. While the Guinness website lists an entirely different snake as the biggest. Nowhere does it say (nor has it been said since) that Guinness confirmed their claims.

After the story had circulated for quite awhile and people tried to confirm those claims, the snake actually got a LOT shorter. In reality, it was somewhat less than 30' long.

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Ahh ... Still, thats one HUGE snake ... Plus, thats a nasty clean up job there. Anyone got a shovel and 5 rolls of paper towels handy?

Hah.. you should have seen the poops Baby could pass. One 'pellet' the size of a bowling ball.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Hah.. you should have seen the poops Baby could pass. One 'pellet' the size of a bowling ball.

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HAHA! Yeah I could ONLY imagine! ... Just make sure you have shoes on. Stepping in it would uh, ya know ... be rather "uncomfortable".

Here's a crappy pic of Baby I took when I worked there. https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...8/SSCN0232.JPG

She's the real guinness record holder.