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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Larry D. Fishel

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• World's largest snake caught - jhasty, Mon Dec 29 08:41:31 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - jhasty, Mon Dec 29 08:42:41 2003
• RE: amazing!, here's the text from story... - gaus, Mon Dec 29 09:55:31 2003
• It's on the CNN website too, but NO pics. Has anyone - - tcdrover, Mon Dec 29 10:45:22 2003
• RE: It's on the CNN website too, but NO pics. Has anyone - - jeffb, Mon Dec 29 13:08:31 2003
• If that's the snake in question... - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 13:24:46 2003
• RE: If that's the snake in question... - snake12, Mon Dec 29 20:23:55 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 12:57:04 2003
• But now the question is... - JimmyDavid, Mon Dec 29 14:19:14 2003
• Just one more thing - JimmyDavid, Mon Dec 29 14:45:06 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - hermitcore, Mon Dec 29 15:32:26 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 16:20:25 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - hermitcore, Mon Dec 29 19:39:04 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 22:44:09 2003
• Here is the picture - Marcel Poots, Mon Dec 29 16:37:33 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - frankw, Mon Dec 29 17:12:59 2003
• This is not a very large python...... - MikeWilbanks, Tue Dec 30 09:51:32 2003
• RE: This is not a very large python...... - psilocybe, Tue Dec 30 13:06:22 2003
• My 2c - jordanm, Tue Dec 30 15:44:50 2003