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Scolopendra dehaani is one of the largest centipedes in the genus Scolopendra, and some specimens have been found to reach or exceed 25 cm in length. [2] [4] It usually lives for five to six years. [5] Specimens usually have brownish-orange tergites (the hard plates on the tops of the segments) and yellow .
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Vietnam water snake; Vietnam worm snake; W. White-banded wolf snake; White-lipped keelback; X. Xenopeltis ...
The snake elements were described as those of a novel, giant boid snake that they named Titanoboa cerrejonensis. The genus name derives from the Greek word "Titan" in addition to Boa, the type genus of the family Boidae. The species name is a reference to the Cerrejón region it is known from.
• The green anaconda is the largest (most massive) extant snake. The silhouette is scaled to 5.21 metres (17.1 ft) which was the longest measured and published in a study by Jesús Antonio Rivas that measured hundreds of anacondas. [2] There are reports of longer anacondas, but these reports have been questioned. [3] [4] [5]
Oligodon annamensis, commonly known as the Annam kukri snake or Leviton’s kukri snake, [2] is a species of colubrid [1] [2] snake originally known from two specimens from Vietnam, where it was thought to be endemic. [1] It has also since been found in Cambodia and Thailand. [3]
Pretty much all of the really impressive “biggest snakes in the world”—the 50-footers and up—live online or in Hollywood. In 2017, the body of a palm fruit farmer in Indonesia was found ...
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
Titanoboa: Monster Snake is a 2012 documentary film produced by the Smithsonian Institution.The documentary treats Titanoboa, the largest snake ever found.Fossils of the snake were uncovered from the Cerrejón Formation at Cerrejón, the tenth biggest coal mine in the world in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin of La Guajira, northern Colombia, covering an area larger than Washington, D.C. [1] The ...