
Green anacondas are the biggest of their kind, reaching lengths of 30 feet and weighing up to 500 pounds. Green Anaconda Two men hold a green anaconda skin in Brazil’s Amazon basin. Reticulated Python A closer look at Medusa, the Guinness World Record-holder for the longest snake ever. Instead, here are the world’s largest snake species, along with a few individual specimens that are just too impressive to leave out, including Medusa, a 25-foot-plus python, which, among living serpents, is the longest snake in the world. What follows isn’t a strict rundown of the largest snakes ever recorded, as that would mostly involve pythons of slightly different lengths. There was also the man-sized bulge in the snake’s body. Villagers became suspicious when they found the snake “slithering awkwardly” near where the farmer’s boot was found. In 2017, the body of a palm fruit farmer in Indonesia was found inside a 23-foot-long python. The longest of them, pythons, can stretch well beyond the length of George Washington’s 21-foot nose on Mount Rushmore, and there is anecdotal evidence of some specimens reaching 33 feet, or nearly as long as a telephone pole.


(Many of the latter starred in the 1982 Arnold Schwarzeneggar breakthrough hit Conan the Barbarian and are retired now.) But even in the real world, a handful of snake species can grow to immense proportions. Pretty much all of the really impressive “biggest snakes in the world”-the 50-footers and up-live online or in Hollywood.
