The knife being used to draw out the fangs for the bottom picture has a blade around 6 inche long. The head of this snake alone is larger than the hand of a normal sized man.Ī bite from those fangs would be comparable to being stabbed by two curved, 1/4 inch diameter screwdrivers.
#Largest snake ever found full
One bite from a snake of this size would contain enough venom to kill over 40 full grown men. Augustine outlet, in a new KB homes subdivision just south of Mesa Az.Ī little research revealed the following: This is a 15 foot Western Diamondback rattlesnake – the largest ever caught on record, Happily, the innate goodness and potential to love in every human heart are greater than any belief or disbelief the human mind may hold!.This is why you shouldn’t go looking for the golf balls hit ‘Out of Bounds’ in Arizona !!!
And while I hope to share what I’ve learned in the Buddhist practice of metta, clearly, one doesn’t have to be a Buddhist to practice love! The power of loving-kindness transcends all belief or non-belief in God, Christ, Buddha, or Brahma and can be found in people of every faith, as well as those of no faith, but just a good heart. I am convinced that anyone can be helped and even healed by the power of loving-kindness, called metta, or maitri, in Buddhism. Because of my background as a science writer and editor, I bring the eyes of science as well as the eyes of love to what I write about. It really gives an idea of how massive and heavy these big snakes are:Īt the other end of the scale, you also might want to take a look at this later post of mine-it not only highlights the smallest snake in the world, but the smallest lizard and frog too!īiologist Discovers world’s smallest snake, lizard, and frog!Īt this blog, I celebrate the natural beauty of Berkeley and its local environs-the landscape, the climate, the weather, the animals, plants, the geology, and the ecosystem of the Berkeley Hills area. This video at Vimeo shows the installation of a beautiful 20 foot python at the Little Rock, Arkansas, Zoo.
(about the problem of Burmese Pythons introduced into South Florida’s ecosystem) If you are interested in learning more about large constrictors, here are some links I thought were especially informative and interesting:
Read more about this amazing fossil discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonesis at: In any event, the sketch of the purported beast gives one an idea of how large the actual prehistoric snake would have been, so I offer it here for your entertainment: Myself, I think the story was either a fabrication, or the size of a very large snake was grossly overestimated. Scientists ridiculed Fawcett’s claim, but some cryptozoologists came to his defense. However, I did find an old drawing of an enormous anaconda that adventurer named Percy Fawcett claimed to have killed during his 1906 expedition in Bolivia. I wanted to find some photo or illustration to give readers a better sense of the size of such a snake, but alas, there didn’t seem to be any available. No human and few animals living today would have survived the crushing attack of this gigantic constrictor. The biggest modern snakes, reticulated pythons and green anacondas, are known to consume wild pigs, impala, gazelles, and even leopards and jaguars. Given the power of today’s largest snakes, Titanoboa cerrejonesis must have been a formidable predator able to take huge prey. We are talking about a creature that’s longer than a school bus and that weighed as much an Austin MiniCooper car! Titanoboa cerrejonesis was the longest, largest, heaviest snake that ever lived. “Fossils found in northeastern Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine indicate the reptile…was at least 42 feet (13 meters) long and weighed 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms).”
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