See: World longest snake 25 feet (captivity)
The longest snake - ever (captivity) is Medusa, a reticulated python (python reticulatus), and is owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. When measured on 12 October 2011, she was found to be 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) long.
Medusa also holds the current
'Longest Snake - Living (captivity)' title. In Kansas City, Missouri, USA, those who look directly at Medusa may not do that but they certainly come to a stone cold stop.
That’s because the Medusa you find at the city’s Full Moon Productions isn’t some mythological figure of yore.
It’s the longest snake ever in captivity. Medusa, a reticulated python, clocked in at 7.67 meters (25 ft, 2 inches) long in its official world record measurement, on October 12, 2011.
Reticulated pythons – named as such because of the grid-like pattern of its skin – are on average the world’s longest snakes, but adults normally grow an average of between 3-6 m (or, 10-20 ft).
But there is nothing normal about Medusa. The 10-year-old snake required 15 men to hold her at full length in order for her.
record measurement to be taken, and her diet consists of a combination of rabbits, hogs, and deer served biweekly.
She’s been known to eat a whole, 18-kg (40-lb) deer in one sitting. Medusa herself weighs 158.8 kg (350 lbs).
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