The offer was thankfully terminated in 2002 to discourage people from disturbing these animals from their natural habitats. The heaviest and longest anaconda ever recorded weighed a whopping 500 lbs (227 kilograms) and measured a monster 27.7 feet (8.43 meters) in length, with diameter of 44 inches (1.11 meters)!ĭuring the days of President Teddy Roosevelt, the Wildlife Conservation Society offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who could deliver a live snake measuring over 30 feet in length. The Python still takes the title of the world’s longest snake, but in terms of diameter and weight, the anaconda is not only the largest in South America and the Amazon rainforest but also the world. The Green Anaconda, or Eunectes murinus, is the heaviest, largest, and longest snake in South America. Many legends and lore circulate around the length of the Giant Anaconda. In July 2015, a different fake photograph was attached to the very same claims (i.e., the giant reptile had eaten '257 people and 2325 animals') by the web site Information Nigeria.Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) seen in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve 2. This anaconda was caught alive by a long struggle after 37 days and killed by the Royal British commando force. This snake had eaten 257 people & 2325 animals. The world's largest Anaconda was caught in Amazon forest.

In June 2015, a story containing oddly specific details (e.g., how could the number of animals this snake had killed be known?) was attached to these pictures:

First, the video claims that the snake is at least 75 feet long (which is more than twice the size of the largest snake on record), and second, the video was uploaded by a cryptozoologist (Marc Anders) who frequently employs digital manipulation to speculate about the existence of creatures such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. While we haven't been able to determine how the image featured in the above-displayed video was created, we have been able to determine that it is fake based on two factors. Although most of the photographs included with the 'world's largest anaconda' rumor came from the student project displayed above, another image purportedly showing the enormous (yet fictional) snake originated with a YouTube video published in 2012:

Largest anaconda ever killed