

They may be pitch black, have horns, or have large, fiery eyes. The Giant Anacondas of native legend are even more terrifying. Other explorers reported a similarly unbearable smell, usually caused by the anaconda’s breath. “a penetrating foetid odor probably its breath.” Percy Fawcett, a famous explorer who reported encountering a 62-foot anaconda in Bolivia, described the stench as
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Both their jaws and their skin can expand, allowing them to swallow meals of a ghastly size.Ī terrible stench is sometimes associated with Giant Anacondas. They may also have yellowish spots near their underbelly and orange bars that run from their eyes to their nightmarish jaws.

Like regular anacondas, Giant Anacondas have dark green-grey skin and egg-shaped black spots. Giants top the scales at 165 feet (50 meters) long. Still, Giant Anacondas dwarf even the largest green anaconda on record. (227 kilograms) - a true gargantuan measuring a full 14 feet (4 meters) more than the average length. The largest green anaconda on record is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and weighs 550 lbs. Pound for pound, the largest snake species in the world is the green anaconda. Giant Anacondas are quite similar to regular anacondas in fact, people who report seeing Giant Anacondas usually claim that the snake was a terrifically large specimen of the known species. The legendary serpents are often reported as being two or three times the size of the largest anaconda to be scientifically documented. The Giant Anaconda is an exaggerated version of the already monstrous anacondas living in South America.
