The longest croc proven is less than 9 ft if I remember right. Theres always someone that says they shot a 30 ft snake or 15 ft croc monitor or something like that. Recently the discussion of a 49ft 990lb reticulated python came up, most people would look at the pics and say "thats nowhere near that size", yets others said " Its definitely over 30ft but its no 49ft", a reporter finally insisted on measuring it and the keeper said "I dont know how it shrunk 28ft", it was only 21 ft in the first place. Whether its a claim to a record or exageration, alot of those old records are dried out stretched skins, deceptive pics, or empty claims. I have a picture of a green Iguana that many people who visited the dealership it lives at said "wow, that thing is 7-9ft long, Ive never seen anything close to it", these claims went on for almost 2 years, I visited this fall and took pics, hes 18-19 inches STV and if his tail never broke hed be around 6ft. The 10ft 3inch water monitor measurement was a recent capture of a wild caught animal I believe. Its the longest proven.

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