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The death of Akbar Salubiro was the first fully confirmed case of a reticulated python (or in fact any snake) killing and consuming an adult human, [7] as the process of retrieving the body from the python's stomach was documented by pictures and videos taken by witnesses. [8] [9] [10] [11]
The reticulated python is the largest snake native to Asia. More than a thousand wild reticulated pythons in southern Sumatra were studied, and estimated to have a length range of 1.5 to 6.5 m (4 ft 11 in to 21 ft 4 in), and a weight range of 1 to 75 kg (2 lb 3 oz to 165 lb 6 oz). [27]
It is the largest, heaviest, and second longest snake in the world, after the reticulated python. No subspecies are currently recognized. Like all boas, it is a non-venomous constrictor. The term "anaconda" often refers to this species, though the term could also apply to other members of the genus Eunectes. Fossils of the snake date back to ...
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 ...
Idina Menzel to Perform on Bronx Zoo’s Float in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade The Bronx Zoo recently announced Broadway star Idina Menzel, otherwise known as Elsa in the movie Frozen, will ...
The new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.
The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. [7] Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson.
The second-longest venomous snake in the world is possibly the African black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), which can grow up to 4.5 m (15 ft). Among the genus Naja, the longest member arguably may be the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), which can reportedly grow up to 3 m (9.8 ft).