Oh giant snake, we hardly knew ye.
In a span of three days, humans managed to find what might have been the longest snake in the world, capture it, kick it and watch it die.
The reticulated python, a fairly common species in Southeast Asia, was spotted last Thursday at a construction site in Paya Terubong, part of the island of Penang. It was stuck under a fallen tree, The BBC reports.
"It is eight metres in length and weighs about 250kg," Herisyam told The Guardian.
Currently, the Guinness World Record-holder is Medusa, a reticulated python who resides in Kansas City, Mo. When she was measured in 2011, she was 25 feet 2 inches long, roughly a little longer than a mid-sized car. According to Guinness World Records, 10 men were required to hold her for measurement.
A common dinner for Medusa is a full, 40-pound deer.
We'll never know what our new snake enjoyed when dining out, because the python died Sunday night just after giving birth, only three days after being captured. Muhammad Aizat, another member of the Penang's Civil Defence Department team that caught the snake, told BBC the stress of being chased might have made giving birth deadly.
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In a span of three days, humans managed to find what might have been the longest snake in the world, capture it, kick it and watch it die.
The reticulated python, a fairly common species in Southeast Asia, was spotted last Thursday at a construction site in Paya Terubong, part of the island of Penang. It was stuck under a fallen tree, The BBC reports.
"It is eight metres in length and weighs about 250kg," Herisyam told The Guardian.
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Currently, the Guinness World Record-holder is Medusa, a reticulated python who resides in Kansas City, Mo. When she was measured in 2011, she was 25 feet 2 inches long, roughly a little longer than a mid-sized car. According to Guinness World Records, 10 men were required to hold her for measurement.
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A common dinner for Medusa is a full, 40-pound deer.
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We'll never know what our new snake enjoyed when dining out, because the python died Sunday night just after giving birth, only three days after being captured. Muhammad Aizat, another member of the Penang's Civil Defence Department team that caught the snake, told BBC the stress of being chased might have made giving birth deadly.
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