Naturalists used to think that snakes who used this technique were, in effect, strangling their prey. According to " The New Encyclopedia of Snakes" by Chris Mattison, there've been "several authenticated reports" of large "retics" measuring about 28 feet (8.5 meters) from end to end.Īnacondas kill by constriction, using their jaws to seize the victim before immobilizing it with tightly wrapped coils. Lengthwise, the Asian reticulated python probably has it beat. So, as a species, the green anaconda is considered the world's heaviest snake - but not necessarily the longest. The biggest and bulkiest Eunectes murinus can weigh 440 pounds (200 kilograms) or more. Despite his best efforts, he couldn't avoid stretching out the skin as he worked-which gave it a post-mortem length of 34.58 feet (10.54 meters). After he skinned the reptile, Lamar measured its disembodied hide. The freshly slain corpse was a respectable 24.58 feet (or 7.49 meters) long. Lamar proved this point in 1978, when he killed a wild anaconda of ample size. The problem is, those are really easy to distort. Some claims hinge on enormous skins cut from dead snakes. Yet rumors of anacondas growing two or three times larger persist.
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