10 Largest Snakes in the World Discovered

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if you ever read at least the first book
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about harry potter
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you probably remember the young wizard
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accidentally letting a huge
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snake out of its cage that was in fact a
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boa constrictor
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one of the largest snakes in the world
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the females of its kind can reach 14
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feet in length
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that's about half as long as a famous
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london red bus
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it's one of only two animals in history
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named exactly the same
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in both common language and the
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scientific latin the other one is the
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infamous
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tyrannosaurus rex like many large
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non-venomous snakes
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boa constrictor is a peaceful giant that
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loves lying in the sun
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doing nothing even on a hunt it would
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rather lie in weight until its prey
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comes within a striking range
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and then swoop down on it
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yellow anaconda also belongs to the boa
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species of giant snakes
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but it's nothing like the previous one
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it reaches 15 feet in length
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take shaquille o'neal put another on his
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shoulders and you get one yellow
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anaconda
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except it can't dunk a basketball this
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beast is slow but known to be aggressive
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in captivity it doesn't like to be
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around humans and can be unpredictable
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yellow anacondas can only be found in
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south america
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and i'm really thankful for that and
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mostly inhabit
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shallow waters of river regions in fact
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even its scientific first name eunectes
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meaning good swimmer from greek yet
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there's a sinister thing about these
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serpents
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they're known to eat their own kind
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snake recycling
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sort of nobody knows how often this
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happens though
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green anaconda is slightly longer than
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her yellow sister
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reaching the longest of 17 feet but at
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the same time it's much heavier
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it can weigh as much as a python one and
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a half times its length
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the funny thing about green anacondas
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is that lots of people seem to believe
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it's the longest and the heaviest of all
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snakes
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while this is far from the truth well
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that wasn't funny
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never mind all across the regions where
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anacondas live
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there are still rumors of these snakes
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reaching lengths
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double or even triple their maximum and
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these rumors persist
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although a scientist who studied over a
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thousand green anacondas
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states clearly in his works that there
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should be no snake like this
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longer than 17 feet i guess people just
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love
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mysteries
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burmese python is opening the big six of
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the greatest snakes in the world
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if you ever find yourself going through
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a tropical marsh in southeast
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asia make sure you're paying attention
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to your surroundings
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burmese pythons like to rest in the damp
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areas like that
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and with their brown coloring you'll
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have trouble seeing them
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yeah even despite their huge size they
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can grow up to almost 19 feet in length
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and try not to be too scared when you
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see it
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hanging from a tree and looking you
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tenderly in the eye
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these pythons have what's called a
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prehensile tail
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a tail that's good for climbing and
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hanging off tree branches
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but perhaps the most unexpected place to
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meet it would be in
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florida where burmese pythons were
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illegally
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imported as pets and some escaped and
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multiplied
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estimates put their population at one
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hundred thousand
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now remember kah from the jungle book
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well meat is prototype
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the indian python despite its name it
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can be found
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not only in india but also in pakistan
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and even as far as
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china the snake is truly huge reaching
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the length of 21 feet
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you know how i love giraffes and this is
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almost exactly how tall they are
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indian pythons also prefer damp
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surroundings
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but unlike yellow endocondas they can
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easily find home on dry land
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when a young python hatches from its egg
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it's almost helpless
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depending on its mother to feed and
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protect it but
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after a couple of days it becomes
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independent and grows to an adult in a
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matter of two years
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a methistine python or less poetically
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scrub python is a gentle giant
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in papua new guinea and australia there
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are no bigger snakes than this scaly
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beauty
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it can grow to the enormous size of 24
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feet
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as proved by the guinness world records
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and weigh up to 200 pounds
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heavier than its neighboring kangaroo
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scrub pythons are pretty curious
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sometimes slithering inside people's
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homes in australia
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but they're mostly harmless for humans
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their favorite food is much smaller
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they catch rodents bats and birds that
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come to streams for water
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until then pythons quietly lie in weight
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like pit vipers this non-venomous snake
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has heat sensors in the pit of its
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muzzle
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they help it better see warm-blooded
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animals it's
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going to have for dinner
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african rock python is one of only 11
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species of its kind
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and it's the second largest this huge
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brown snake reaches lengths of up to 25
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feet
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and weighs almost like a giant panda and
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unlike the previous entries on this list
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it's very serious about its meals a rock
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python can catch an
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antelope and eat it whole even the
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cold-blooded crocodiles are afraid of
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this beast
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because it can easily eat one of their
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kind too
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in 1958 a zoologist found a four foot
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long
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young nile croc inside an african
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python's stomach
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hard to swallow but it's true in its
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homeland
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this serpent is held in reverence and
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fear
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but in fact it's not really keen on
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munching humans
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finally the reticulated python holds the
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first place
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as the world's longest living snake the
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largest specimen of this kind
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made it into the guinness world records
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in 2011
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25.2 feet in length and 350 pounds in
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weight
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its name was medusa and it lived in a
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zoo in kansas city missouri
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an adult reticulated python is large
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enough to swallow a human hole
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and they are known to do that sometimes
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mostly though these snakes are quite
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peaceful and prefer to lie down without
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a lot of movement
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interestingly although many pythons have
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dwarf forms that are much smaller than
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their full-grown cousins
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reticulated pythons also have super
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dwarf forms too
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they're kept as pets and only grow to a
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maximum of
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eight feet in length well that's just so
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much smaller
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but still longer than the average human
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is tall
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we've covered the living snakes but what
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about the largest ones ever
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one of them was gigantifists a giant
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snake that went extinct about 40 million
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years ago
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thank you and until 2009 was considered
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the biggest in the history of earth
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its estimated size was reaching 35 feet
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two such snakes could cover a cricket
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pitch
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giganyphus lived in the territory that
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today is covered in sands
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the sahara desert and egypt at the time
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it was a sea so this serpent was a water
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snake
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it also wasn't either a python or a boa
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but belonged to its own separate family
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of snakes
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which unfortunately went extinct
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altogether
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yet the biggest serpent that ever
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existed is officially
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the titanoboa its fossilized remains
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were discovered and measured in colombia
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in 2009 and it made a sensation at the
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time
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the gigantic snake could grow to the
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absolute epic
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size 42 feet in length which is as big
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as a semi truck
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and over a ton in weight scientists
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believe
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such a constrictor could easily crush
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even the hardest of animals with its
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weight alone
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and its length allowed it to hug
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middle-sized dinosaurs
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but the base of its diet actually lived
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in the water
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the titanoboa loved fish like nothing
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else
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yeah baby seafood titanoboa
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also became a celebrity in 2012
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smithsonian channel released a
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documentary about this snake
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and it inspired lots of other movies
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including of course
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monster horrors