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.
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