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Quote:It was a female specimen belonging to the species of Reticulated Python known by the name of Cassius captured in Malaysia in 1972 and brought into captivity at Knaresborough Zoo in the city of Yorkshire in England where it lived until April 3, 1980 in 1978 it was said by Guinness Book was 8.38 meters long and weighed 108 kilos, but shortly after his death he was measured again and his size was 7.77 meters long and weighed 118 kilos, according to the owner of the Zoo Adrian Nyoka and accepted by the Guinness Book, his fresh skin was Measured at 8.80 meters in length after his death, according to an analysis of the photos by experts, it would have been around 20 to 21 feet long and weighed less than previously mentioned.
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Quote:Photograph was taken in 1953 near the city of Kananga in the Western Kasaï province of DR Congo where this specimen of Sebae Python was found eating a calf weighing 43 kilos, which was estimated by herpetologists Robert W. Henderson and John C. Murphy in approximately 7 to 7.3 meters, only a part measuring approximately 5.60 meters long and weighing 113 kilos (including the weight of the calf) is visible in the photo, based on an estimate made from the shoes of a person in the photo where this specimen was found.
Quote:2 skulls found on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia that may have come from specimens around 9 meters long, according to specialist Dr. Daniel Natusch, the man has already captured and measured more than 17,000 specimens of Reticulated python
