Guinness World Records reports the biggest reticulated python ever captured was 32 feet, 9.5 inches, and the longest living in captivity was a 25-foot, 2-inch snake that died in 2011 in Kansas ...

There was also the man-sized bulge in the snake’s body. What follows isn’t a strict rundown of the largest snakes ever recorded, as that would mostly involve pythons of slightly different lengths.

Titanoboa is considered one of the largest known snakes to have ever existed. Although this snake is no longer present today as it went extinct about 60 million years ago. It measured 13 meters ...