Scientist catches monster snake

Scientist catches monster snake

A member of a team ofbiologists captured an enormous 5.4 metre-long anaconda during a tropical rainforest exploration in Guyana, South America.

Niall McCann, a 29-year-old biologist from Cardiff, Wales in UK, pounced on the slithering reptile when hecame across it on a bank of the Rewa River.

The monster snake weighed around 100kg and had a 68.5cm girth.

The scientists holding the giant anaconda

Niall is an avid adventurer and has rowed the Atlantic and trekked across Greenland's Polar Ice Cap.

He has a passion for handling creatures that would petrify most people and had always dreamed of catching one of these massive snakes.

He said: "I'd always dreamed of seeing an anaconda and I knew that our work in Gcondauyana would give us a real possibility of seeing one.

"I was trying to hold its head to the ground and it kept trying to turn its head to bite me - it was a wrestle.

"Its strength was amazing and when a ripple went through its body it shook all of us."

Anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world and can weigh up to a whopping 250kg.

They squeeze their prey to death before swallowing them whole, and have been known to attack jaguars and humans.
Source: The Sun

Published Sept 18 2011