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RE: World's largest snake caught

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Posted by: Larry D. Fishel at Mon Dec 29 12:57:04 2003   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Larry D. Fishel ]  
   

As much as I'd like this to be true, I find it virtually impossible to believe. It would be like finding a human 12 feet tall. Biological systems just don't scale well. I would think it would have to have a heart the size of a buick to pump blood to it's tail. Plus by my calculations a fairly thin retic that long would weight 2400 pounds...



I could MAYBE buy 39 feet and 990 pounds, but the fact that noone's bothered to snap a picture of what might be the longest snake that's ever lived makes me very susicious.
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