Meet Medusa, the largest snake in the world. Plus, boas the length of school buses, quarter-ton anacondas, and a 12-foot pit viper named Silent Death.

Defining “Big” in the Snake World Depending on your definition of “big,” there are two species in the running for the biggest snake in the world: the reticulated python and the anaconda.

The green anaconda is the largest of the four, and this is the species that most people think of when they hear the name. The green anaconda is the biggest snake in the world. slowmotiongli / Adobe ...

The longest snake in North America is the eastern indigo, which is a kind of black snake that lives in coastal Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, a region that is undergoing rapid condo ...

Biggest Python in Florida Snake Hunt Released Back into the Wild Officials hope giant snake will lead them to breeding female snakes.

Graham Alexander, from the University of Johannesburg, told Newsweek that reticulated pythons are ""massive snakes, without exaggerating" with exceptional creatures reaching 26 feet in captivity.

Kevin Pavlidis, a professional python hunter, earns $50 for the first four feet of reptile and $25 per additional foot. He caught Florida's longest python — 18 feet and 9.75 inches — in 2019.

A Burmese python nest of 111 eggs is the largest ever discovered in Florida, wildlife officials said. It was removed from the Everglades this month.

The Largest Snake in the World—And 9 More Super-Size Serpents Pretty much all of the really impressive “biggest snakes in the world”—the 50-footers and up—live online or in Hollywood.

The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, with the longest ever recorded measuring about 32.8 feet long.