Heaviest Snake

Sunday, August 9, 2009


The heaviest snake is the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) of tropical South America and Trinidad. The normal length is 5.5 – 6.1 m (18 – 20 ft). A female shot in Brazil c. 1960 was 8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) long with a girth of 1.11 m (44 in), and was estimated to have weighed 227 kg (500 lb).

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