reticulatus length greater than 25 feet (7.6 meters). Do you trust that Victorian explorer or scrap of local hearsay? Do you ignore how stretched the skin appears in that 50-year-old photograph? Ultimately, record measurements in the wild are few, far between and easily bungled or exaggerated.įor instance, an alleged 33-foot (10.1-meter) reticulated python from a 1946 Natural History Magazine story continues to pop up in articles on giant snakes, though herpetologist John C. The maximum size is directly proportional to the amount of skepticism you choose to employ. Giant snake accounts are rather like giant fish stories. You might well expect there to be a bit more scientific certainty on the matter, but you'd be quite wrong. Other sources, such as the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, just go ahead and award the green anaconda top honors. Many sources tend to credit the reticulated python with the greatest record length, while crediting the heavier, semiaquatic green anaconda with the greatest overall weight and size as the biggest snake in the world. If you're an avid reality TV viewer, you might remember the green anaconda Chumana, which failed to gobble up "Eaten Alive" host Paul Rosolie. The modern serpent queen's crown (the females are larger in both species) rests most easily on the heads of either the Asian reticulated python ( Python reticulatus), so called for its geometric color pattern, or the South American green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus).
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