
Was the World's Largest Snake Captured in the Amazon?
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A series of low-resolution photos purportedly showing the "world's largest anaconda" have been circulating online since at least 2010:
Although these images seemingly show a very large snake being transported on the back of a truck, higher resolution versions of these photos reveal that the items pictured are just toys:
These images were created for a student photograph of a regular-sized snake to make it appear as if it were the "world's largest snake":
This claim contains several giveaways beyond the obviously manipulated photographs. Most obviously, a 134-foot-long snake is more than four times longer than the world's largest snake, the
Green Anaconda, which (according to Titanoboa, the enormous Cretaceous fossil discovered in 2012, topped out at under 50 feet.