In captivity, this record was beaten by a female anaconda in Pittsburgh Zoo, who reached the grand old size of 6.27 metres. The largest proven snake ever found in the wild was 5.21 metres and weighed 97.5 kilograms, unearthed by Dr Jesus Antonio Rivas, a world leading anaconda scientist who has observed over a thousand of the snakes.
The Green Anaconda (image from Slithering through the jungles of South America is the heaviest snake in the world, the green anaconda, with historical records reporting individuals as large as 9 metres, although this has never been officially proved.
