can a snake grow up to be a 100 feet long any snake in the world?

Answer 1

No way!

The title of "The world's longest snake" is generally acknowledged to be a reticulated python that measured about 33 feet . (that snake was reported in 1912). Depending on who you believe, the largest anaconda ever recorded was between 27 and 34 feet.

Bear in mind that a snake's weight increases at a much faster rate than its length. A 10-foot anaconda, for example, does not weigh twice as much as a five-foot aaconda. It may weigh five to 10 times as much.

A 50-plus foot anaconda would be so heavy that it would crush its rib cage if it tried to crawl on land. The anaconda does spend a lot of time in the water, but it also spends a good bit of time sunning itself on river banks and elsewhere.

Stories about huge snakes measuring 80 feet or more are just that: Stories. The New York Conservation Park (f/k/a the Bronx Zoo) has offered a reward to anyone who can bring it an anaconda measuring 30 feet or more. That reward has been offered since 1905 and has never been claimed.

I once had a six foot black rat snake that escaped. I got a call from a friend who lived nearby and he asked me, "Do you want a 10-foot black snake?" I raced over to his house, but during the five minutes it took me to get there that "10-foot" snake had shrunk by four feet!

People are very prone to exaggerate the length of animals, including snakes, that are described in terms of length.

If you think fishermen lie, talk to someone who has seen a large snake. It's interesting that many people have SEEN really large/long snakes, but no one has been able to CAPTURE one, either dead or aive.

Answer 2

There are no records of live or fossil snakes anywhere near that length. The world record FOSSIL snake was about 36 feet long (http://members.tripod.com/wellsking/Worldrec5.htm)

The longest world record for a snake in modern times is the earlier mentioned 1912 record of 33 feet- a record that is actually doubted now, and no parts of that snake still survive.

There are certain mechanical problems with a 100 foot long snake. If it is long and skinny, then it needs something to control the entire length of its body, and a way to shove food, nutrients, waste products, air, and so on through the entire structure.

If it is built like an Andaconda or Python, it would weigh too much to move- the giant snakes already barely move under their own weight (and tend to be ambush hunters in or near water).

Every country with giant snakes claim that they also have super-giants pushing 100 feet. They are never recorded in any way, and only rarely seen- and then under questionable situations.

Not very likely. I rank them as less likely than Bigfoot, and only a little more likely than the Loch Ness Monster being a plesiasaur- both of which I rank as less likely than me waking up and discovering that I am a multi-billionaire married to a supermodel and still having one wish left with the geni.

Answer 3

100 Foot Long Snake

Answer 4

Good god please don't answer unless you know what you are talking about. There is absolutely no snake in the world that can even reach 40 feet in length. Today you will find 20-25 foot anacondas and possibly retics (reticulated pythons for those who have no grey matter when it comes to snakes). I have a friend who owns Niki, a 16 foot 170 pound burmese python.

If you can find any animal that isn't a whale that is 100 feet long please tell us, and the government, as you have found a new species of animal.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. The longest recorded snake in the world is a 33 1/2 foot long reticulated python. All reports about 100 foot snakes have been proven fakes or just incorrect measurements of skin found after a molt.

Answer 6

Not even close. 33 feet though.

Answer 7

I believe an Anaconda may....That's one big snake!

Answer 8

I think an Anaconda can. They can at least get to 80, probably more.

Answer 9

close too 100