The longest snake in the world is the reticulated python, Malayopython reticulatus. While they generally extend to lengths exceeding 6 meters (12 feet), the longest ever taped was a tremendous 9.75-meter (32-foot) reticulated python that was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1912. Unfortunately, that prolonged specimen was likewise shot, so the record was smashed posthumously.
The longest snake in the world ever to be kept in captivity was a slinky lady called Medusa who was determined at 7.67 meters (25 feet, 2 inches) long. According to the 2011 Guinness World Record in which she’s well known, Medusa was housed at “The Edge of Hell Haunted House” in Kansas City, and it took 15 individuals to bring the 10-year-old snake in order for her record measurement to be taken.
Feeding such a prolonged world record holder needed a mix of bunnies and hogs, and she might swallow an entire 18-kilogram (40-pound) deer in one sitting. Medusa herself weighed 158.8 kgs (350 pounds). While Medusa is the most recent record-breaking snake to be acknowledged by Guinness World Records, another, longer reticulated python was discovered in 2018.
The enormous reptile was 8 meters (26 feet) long (photos here), however passed away simply 3 days after it was recorded on a building website in Penang, Malaysia. It’s thought the giant was laying an egg when she passed, however precisely what killed her wasn’t understood.
As well as being the longest snake in the world, the reticulated python can recreate by itself through nonsexual recreation, likewise called parthenogenesis. An 11-year-old reticulated python called Thelma was the very first to flaunt the skill to the clinical neighborhood after laying 6 fertilized eggs without mating with a male.
That Thelma had actually been accumulating sperm had the ability to be eliminated utilizing skin shedding samples for hereditary analysis, which revealed all 6 children were produced by her alone. In sexual recreation, sperm and egg cells require to fuse to produce an embryo, however in Thelma’s case, cells called polar bodies (which consist of hereditary product remaining from egg cell development) generally replaced sperm.
So, not just the world’s longest snake, however one that can make other long snakes all by itself.
Fingers crossed they don’t learn how to cartwheel like the dwarf reed snake.
