What Is The Largest Snake In The World?

There are more than two thousand different kinds of snakes. Snakes are such fascinating and frightening creatures that people have developed all kinds of wrong ideas about them. One of these is that there are huge, terrifying snake, twenty to twenty-five meters long.

In fact, the snakes never grow to such length, through some are certainly big enough. The largest known snake is anaconda, which lives in tropical South America. A specimen shot on the upper Orinoco River in eastern Colombia was a little over eleven metres long. In such an isolated region, there may be even larger anacondas that lie undiscovered so far.

A regal python called “Colossus” was the longest snake ever kept in a zoo. It was probably about nine metres in length. This was the length when it died on 15th April, 1963. It weighed about one hundreds and forty-five kg at a weighing, sometimes in 1957. Most regal pythons are found in South-eastern Asia and in the Philippine Islands.

The Indian python, found in India and the Malay Peninsula, may grow to a length of about seven metres. The Africa rock python is about the same length. The diamond python of Australia and New Guinea often grows to about six and half metre in length.

The snake, for some reason, is known by people to be the world’s largest. It is the boa constrictor, and the most it ever metres is about five metres. This creature makes its home in Southern Mexico, and Central and south America.

The King Cobra, another unpleasant member of the snake family, reaches a maximum length of about five and a half metres. In the United States, the largest snake, ever likely to run here is the Eastern diamondback rattle snake, and it only grows to a length of, a little over two metres. The black chicken snake, bull snake, gopher snake – all found in the United States, also grow to a maximum length of about two and half metres.

The longest poisonous snake is the King Cobra, and the heaviest poisonous snake is the Eastern diamond back rattlesnake.