Is an anaconda bigger than a reticulated python?
-from Dwight Stewart While Python reticulatus may hold the record for the longest snake (10 meters or more), the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) still retains the record for being the largest. Anacondas are big snakes, everything about them is big. This is no doubt related to it’s diet which consists of anything from small rodents to peckaries and caimans. But just how big do they get? Well the largest recorded specimen was over 11 meters in length making for one massive animal. Reticulated pythons can also reach such impressive lengths. Not only that but they can also exceed said lengths, but an 11 meter retic is easily dwarfed compared to an anaconda of the same length. This extreme size difference can be seen (er..heard) in an account by Herpetologist Raymond Ditmars who described a 5 1/2 meter anaconda with the same proportions as a 7.25 meter reticulated python.
