i found this on the web!

Edit:I have merged both your threads together.

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i found this on the web! [attachmentid=25329]

WOW, that is one BIG-ASS SNAKE!

OMG, that's huge, it's probably becuase of some weird unreasonable cause.
Or it's just gods way of saying, theres snakes out there that are bigger then we thought.

So, wait, is that a real pic? anybody konw any story behind this one?

I believe this story goes with the picture above.


The Diario, the newspaper of Pernambuco in Brazil, of January 24, 1948 published a picture with a headline 'Anaconda Weighing 5 Tons.' The picture shows a part of a giant anaconda that was caught by band of Indian half breeds. It was engaged in a siesta near a river with a bull half swallowed. The Indians tied a rope to its neck and tied the other end to a tree. The anaconda measured 131 feet long. Four months later the newspaper of Rio called A Noite Illustrada held a photograph of an anaconda slaughtered by Militia. It's length totaled 115 feet. Herpetologists accept neither photographs as good evidence for the larger than normal anaconda, which they accept a length of 35 feet. Unfortunately the first photograph offers almost nothing for scale except a hut in the background so it is easily dismissed as 'a normal sized anaconda ingesting nothing more than a capybara which is native to the area'. Then much more limpid evidence was produced in 1959.




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in brazil, better go there.

it is beautiful

that photo is very common on the web.....but the good news is, this version is the original and it has far better detail.

it is impossible to gauge its size..even so, it's body is very wide at the top end. you're looking at its tail and about 15ft of body, it looks very bulky to me because a lot of its body is submerged...BUT WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS MASSIVE!

the rest of its body has probably sunk or is out of photo...the red lines i've drawn are about 15 or so inches wide!....even so, it's very hard to tell its true size....the snake is upside down

this looks to me to be a giant anaconda too...the distance from head to tail in a strait line has to be at least 50ft......if i'm wrong then this is a clever manipulation

5 TONS DAMMMMMN You telling me that that thing weighs almost twice as much as my car

wow

This is all a load of BS. The heaviest snake on record is a 400 lb Burmese...No way a snake can reach 5 tons. The picture looks like a dead bloated sndaconda to me...Maybe pushing 15 feet. Nothing big, an andaconda this size would probably weigh around 200 lbs.

There are no snakes documented over 33 feet (reticulated python).

judging from the text in the bottom of the photo it is 35 meters long(114.625 feet) and 75 cm in diameter, weighs 4000 kilos. also, it says it was taken in brazil. its in a different language so im not sure.

Ever seen aliens? No? That Doesn't mean they don't exist.

Here's a couple older pic's i found..not sure how big they are but no where close to 40'.

Is the second photo from the weekly world news

Wow ! That's massive !

Reminds me how much I hate swimming!

Cool pic.

A thought: if it's a dead snake, then maybe it's gotten all swollen 'cos of gases? Then it might not be longer than usual, only fatter, but you wouldn't be able to tell since some parts are submerged in mucky water.

frog fish is right its just a dead bloated snake chilling in the water its stupid to think its a "Giant anaconda" because there is nouthing to gauge it to. people thought this head of nessie in the loch ness was a real pic but it was only 2 inches high http://iep.alien.de/grafiken/nessie1.jpg think about it people theres nouthing that lets u judge the size of it just looking at it and goin eh thatl ooks like its abut 50+ feet is stupid

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Is the second photo from the weekly world news

Hahaha the "hot sheets".

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Its all perspective...Aliens have the whole universe to exist in...Snakes just have a few parts of the earth...


The fact that the snake is at the surface tells it is only in a couple inches of water... I'll say that's about a foot of hidden snake.


The snakes in those pics are just barely pushing 20! The snake in the center pic is discernable I'll say maybe 10 feet....

I understand what your saying but man hasn't trod on every part of this planet. I find it pretty ignorant when people sit at a PC screen saying they know 100% that something doesn't exist.

^ I do not think one needs to tread every square inch of the planet to know that an something physically impossible is not taking place.

For the love of Pete, look at the other snake threads - is this thread purely to have that exact same rebuttle? Size, tracking the digestion of food - all the possibilities have been discussed, lets not do it again please.

No doubt had this specimen been measured it would have "shrunk" as did that recent specimen clamed to be 49 foot. Snakes do not get that big, no matter how enticing the idea sounds to some.

I find it pretty ignorant when people like you with no knowledge on the subject whatsoever attack an educated viewpoint, whether it be me or another person...


Exactly...You are not going to look for a 50 foot snake in Antarctica or Patagonia....The only two possible places are the amazon and the jungles of Indonesia and Malaysia...


No physical need to

*Sarcasm* Oh yeah, just because no snake of this size is held on record must mean that it's BS Is it not possible that if there are abnormally large fish, animals, even humans that a snake of this size could be real?

Its physically and evolutionary impossible for a snake to be that large. Evolution dictates advance, if a snake grew past 40 feet, it would just be to large and cumbersome on land and suffocate to death, while wasting way to much energy to grow and move.

Exactly

Also consider that the snake is a cold blooded creature, so hypothetically with a creature of this size you need to consider the amount of food it needs as opposed to it's digestive period as to how many months the snake can absorb enough heat to aid it's digestion. Animals do not live long with food litterally rotting inside of them before it can be digested.

What about genetic mutation? It can happen in humans, causing abnormal heights, why could the same case not happen in a snake?

that actually made me think.

I can almost bet you that there are a few snake's that exceed 40', just do the math. I believe i read that about 1% of people on earth are above normal size,(pituitary giantism)
And i'm sure the same thing can and does happen in the wild.

The python holds the world's record for length of a snake, with the longest ever measured at 33 feet.Even though the longest python is longer than the record-holding anaconda, the girth of the anaconda is far bigger. Anacondas in the jungles of South America can grow as big around as a grown man!
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ur forgetting one thing not all animals are the same espicaly when looking at cross refrences between two diffrent phylums just because there is a disease that peoople can get doesnt mean that reptiles can get it. think about it if a snake had gigantisim its gorwth would cause its heart to be beating at and iregularly fast pace its puts strain on the heart now imagin that snake striking and constricting its prey it would probly have a heart attack and die. saying a snake could have gigantisism isl iek saying that it can have hoof and mouth disease. jesus christ people the longest snake was a reticulated python that was 10 m 32 ft 9.5 inches ok tis was a snake from across the other side of the world ok now think aobut it its not logiacl that the average legeth of the two snakes means that the reticualted is longer so now for the anaconda to be larger then it would only seem logical that the anaconda on average would be larger. but its not the longest snakes ever liv on the other side of the world there was ana ffircan rock python thatl ived 55 million years ago and its legenth was 11.8 meters which is 38.7 feet these two snakes(african rock and reticualted) liv in africa and asia and arent as heavy bodided as the anaconda threw natural selection one of the things would happen either it woudl get the exremem legenth or the extreme weight it got weight african and asia got legenth and though burmeese are fat arse snakes too there generaly not as heavy as anacondas or as long as retics think aobut it snakes in captivity are bred all the time for certain looks in the pet trade eventualy if there is some gene that would let them get huge would come up and it would be shown espicaly when while trying to get the certain looks babies from the sme clutch are bred to eachother its liek with dogs while breeding mastifs a genetic birth defect appeared the pushed in face thus bulldogs pugs and ohter breeds now have a pushed in face and no such extra long snake gene has appeared or will appear in my oppinion




and p.s. the two snakes in the pic above this post the one on the right isnt even 15 feet and the one of the left is probly 20-23 feet

I find it hard to believe that there are no snake's that are at least 40' out in the amazon or in remote jungle's. I've posted this one before on here, it has to be at least between 30' and 35'.

haha wrong hes eating a tapir tapirs are aobut 6 feet long so ur snake is aobut 20 feet not 30-35 think aobut it if someone tokk tyhis snakes photo why wasnt it reported to be a huge snake and/or caught its not like thee isnt big rewards for huge snakes jeeze people wake up

just because the reward hasn't been claimed, it doesn't mean giant snakes dont exist....

giant snakes haven't been found because people dont visit the right areas in the Amazon, plus dont stay there nearly long enough............like they once used to..... forget a 2 week holiday, think more like 6 months!

the most likely you'll see is 30ft with an outsize snake at about 40ft....but a real monster, well i dont know!

there are many reports of giant snakes, not just Fawcett's; but all of these are from people that stayed in the Amazon for more than 6 months and not on a package holiday to Manus!

my guess is something huge is out there....or people are mistaking an outsize 40 footer for an 80 footer...........uuuuuumm !

A snake passing the 40' mark is plausible, but probably is very rare...They wouldn't get bigger than 35...

Hehe, that's not in the Amazon. And that's not a Tapir.
That is the Australian outback, and that food is a Kangaroo. No Anaconda's in the Aussie Outback.
NO I have not tread every square inch of the outback, but there is still no Anaconda's in Oz.

No 40 foot snakes here thank you very much!

hahahahahah oh man wow being sick sucks i didnt have my contact in before and it looked like a tapir to me and i knew it wasnt an anaconda i thought it was a red tail boa. hha goes to show u how bad my eyes are without my contacts. haha good call man my contacts are in now though lol

and now that i tihnk about it i dont get why i didnt relaise it wasnt a boa constrictor whare n isaid it was like 20 feet considering the largest one ever recorded was 18.5 feet jeeze whats wrong with me lol

ah, but you have forgot alien snakes!

^ Bwahahaha. Bloody alien snakes, see they grow past 50 feet as no gravity affects them. They need such lengths to rear up and catch the odd alien zipping by.

Hrrmmzz robbieb, do I detect a hint of sarcasm?

no no scarsam. just i realy dont know why i messed that up so bad haha

Bah, easy mistake. Need to look pretty close to see the tail of the roo in the water. Could be anywhere too, I have never been to America, but this looks similar to pics I have seen of the Grand Canyon?

Sorry, misinterpreted, lots of haha's there. Think I might get sick too, the medication seems to be making you pretty jolly

lol, it kinda does...Except it would be more beautiful...Its nice there..

WOW! Remind me to never go to Brazil... I hate snakes! But that's very remarkable how things can grow like that. I just wish snakes didn't grow that big...

I love 'em...I have a couple, including a rescued 14 foot Burmese Python.

haha my friend had a retic it shed 4 times in one month it was growing so fast i finaly convinsed him that he wa ill equiped to keep that kind of snake and it was traded at a reptile expo that came threw for a couple smaller snakes. i tihnk one was a blood python and i forget the others he got. i have so many reptiles there awosome including snakes there so amazing to me.

Do some research people the Sucuriju Gigante is different from an anaconda and also if there can be a 100+ft Blue whale whats a 75ft snake

I'd rather not think about a snake that big.....