Ads
related to: longest snake in the world picture puzzle
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The longest venomous snake, with a length up to 18.5–18.8 ft (5.6–5.7 m), is the king cobra, [1] while contesters for the heaviest title include the Gaboon viper and the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. All of these three species reach a maximum mass in the range of 6–20 kg (13–44 lb).
But only one snake species can hold the title of the longest snake in the world: the reticulated python. The longest reticulated python on record measured 32 feet and 9.5 inches long.
Reticulated python. The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is a python species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is the world's longest snake, and the third heaviest after the green anaconda and Burmese python. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wide distribution.
The green anaconda is the world's heaviest and one of the world's longest snakes, reaching a length of up to 5.21 m (17 ft 1 in) long. [11] More typical mature specimens reportedly can range up to 5 m (16 ft 5 in), with adult females, with a mean length of about 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in), being generally much larger than the males, which average ...
The largest recorded specimen was 3.65 m (almost 12 feet) long, making the species the largest of all vipers and the longest venomous snake in the Western Hemisphere. [5] Lachesis muta is the third longest venomous snake in the world, exceeded in length only by the king cobra and the black mamba.
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.