A photo of a giant python that is nearly 17m long, weighs 300kg and is estimated to have lived for more than 140 years has made many people weave strange details and turn it into an imaginary hundred-year-old python.

Centenary python weighs 300kg.

In 2009, a photo of a giant python several tens of meters long appeared, causing surprise among experts as well as readers.

According to a photo believed to be from China’s People’s Daily news site, this 16.7m long python was found in a forest in Jiangxi province. The article also confirmed that the discovered python was one of two giant South American pythons living in the above forest.

The giant python is said to be a hundred-year-old python.

To clear the land for road construction, workers accidentally woke up two sleeping pythons. “When digging for the third time, the workers discovered blood mixed in the soil, and the next time they plowed the soil, they discovered the body of a dead python,” the article reported. At the same time, the remaining giant python with a bronze-colored body suddenly appeared with its mouth wide open. The crane driver was so scared that he fainted, while the other person also ran to escape.

After the other workers returned, the body of the black python was still there, but the yellow python had disappeared. The crane operator also did not wake up. This person had a history of heart disease so he died on the way to the hospital.

The giant python is determined to be 16.7m long, weighs about 300kg and is estimated to be more than… 140 years old.

Because of its appearance and age, people embellish even more things about this giant python. They thought it was a magical python, that’s why the worker driving the excavator died. It was the python’s reprimand.

What’s the truth?

Immediately, the appearance of the hundred-year-old python attracted the attention of interested people. A source confirmed that this photo was taken in a forest in Malaysia, not China.

However, the stories that netizens posted and rumored are untrue and completely unfounded.

After research, there were no articles related to the hundred-year-old python published on the prestigious newspaper People’s Daily. Therefore, the question about the photo that shocked the online community was also clarified when it was determined to be completely a product of photoshop.

Using the person sitting in the cabin as a benchmark for comparison, we will prove the absurdity of the photo. Normally, each bulldozer’s shovel has a length of 1 – 1.5m. Meanwhile, the python in the photo is about 5 times larger than the length of the bucket. This means that the giant python can only be 5 – 7.5 meters long at maximum.

Furthermore, the python appearing in the photo cannot be a South American python because this python does not originate in China or Malaysia.

Another detail that exposes the truth about the giant python is its mesh-patterned skin, which proves that it could be a reticulated python. Although reticulated pythons vary in size, they are only 7 – 10 meters long at maximum. Therefore, according to the information in the photo, the python is 16.7 meters long which is absurd.

With convincing arguments, people have proven that the photo is just an edited product. If so, the giant python cannot be as big and heavy as rumored.

In 2004, a giant python in Indonesia was recognized as the “World’s Largest Python” with a body length of only about 15m but weighing up to 446kg.

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