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FAST FACTS
The world’s heaviest snake is The smallest snake is The snake with the deadliest
the green anaconda, weighing the Barbados threadsnake. venom is the inland taipan. A
227 kg (500 lb) – as much as At only 10 cm (4 in) long, bite contains enough venom
four average adults. it can fit onto a coin. to kill 100 people.
Reticulated pythons are the longest
snakes on Earth, growing to an average The net-like pattern The mouth can
of 5 m (16 ft) long. When measured in of the python’s skin is open wide but the
2011, Medusa weighed a whopping known as “reticulated” python cannot chew,
158 kg (350 lb), thanks to a diet of and provides camouflage so animal prey must
rabbits, rodents, hogs, and deer. in dense forests. be swallowed whole.
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