Longest recorded snake possibly caught in Indonesia!

Here's a few more pics

Originally posted by kraken
Yes. Good find on the pics. That snake is huge. I would like to see a pic of it stretched out though. It is hard to judge it's size when it is coiled up. I hope they don't end up killing it either. That would be a shame.

Its lucky it wasnt killed in the jungle for food. I've seen poor villagers eating snake meat from reticulate pythons and one this big must've been tempting to serve up at the next family BBQ

One more Pic

I more than believe in snakes being 110ft long, there is just too much of the world left we haven't completely explored, and there is more than a good chance that there could very well be creatures of that size.

I found another news story link:
www.msnbc.msn.com...

This one looks like it has actual video of the snake. I don't have WMP9 on my work machine so I can't view it yet.

Great Find! That snake is pretty freaky looking. His head is the size of a Cantelope.

Its lucky it wasnt killed in the jungle for food. I've seen poor villagers eating snake meat from reticulate pythons and one this big must've been tempting to serve up at the next family BBQ

yeah, I can see how that one went down...

Haji: "You get it!"
Naji: "No, YOU get it!"

Originally posted by THENEO
HA HA!

Annother drop kick to the head of Conventional Science.

Keep it up people!

I must have missed the drop kick....what was it?

if you live in new york they are about to show a story about it on channel five, hurry up!!

I read about this snake a few days ago, but these are the first pictures I have seen. Holy crap, that is one large and in charge snake. I would hate to be swimming and have this thing come up next to me. Pretty amazing creature.

......and matching shoes ain't back from the tailors yet, it's still crawling!

I asure you itd ALOT bigger then the pics show...

in captivity just because he's big? damn i think i'll stop eating these cookies..

Good find, Kraken- I just saw on MSNBC a report on this snake, it is 49 feet long. The report also stated that villagers who caught it had revered it as a god, and that it ate 4 or 5 dogs a month.

What an amazing predator. A 50 ft. snake was only a myth days ago. This beast should be put back in the wild though, It's a shame to see it displayed in "Kong" fashion.

Originally posted by Brodee
What an amazing predator. A 50 ft. snake was only a myth days ago. This beast should be put back in the wild though, It's a shame to see it displayed in "Kong" fashion.

agreed

Yes, it is a shame that a creature this magnificent is displayed in this manner. It is good to see new discoveries like this though. This snake exceeds the previous world record by almost 20ft. That in itself is amazing. I hope that once all of the hoopla dies down that they will find a suitable home for it, or release back into the wild. It is good to see that at least they have a pool for the snake in that cage.

Nice pix BTW.

If they release it back in to the wild there is a good chance that someone else will catch it and either kill it for the skin or keep it as a pet, just because of it's record size. One that size would be almost impossible to humainly keep as a pet unless it was a Zoo or a habitat with the proper equpiment.
Retics are not the nicest snakes either, they will bite people (eat whole in this case)
It should be put in a habitat or wildlife refuge where it can be protected from poachers IMO.

I had a 13 foot Burmese Python as you can see in the pic below.
She was around 7 ft in this pic



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What is plug doing in the cage with that big fat jabber of a snake ? people these days just dont have any sense! anyone seen that pic of that Anaconda they cut open and a body was inside, i seen it a while back in a copy of "Front" magazine but wondered if one of you guys found the sick photo on the tinternet !

Worlds longest snake...no longer is. Seems no one put a tape measure to it, until now

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