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Longest-ever captured python found on a Malaysian building site, has died, officials say.

The 26ft-long snake was spotted on April 7 under a fallen tree on the island of Penang.

The python died on April 10 after laying eggs.Longest Ever Caught Python Dies in Captivity

According to Guinness World Record, the current record for longest snake ever caught is 7.67m.

Medusa, a reticulated python weighing 348.3 lbs, is kept at a haunted house in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Malaysian snake, also thought to be a reticulated python, has not been officially measured by record keepers.

It weighed 551lbs and took 30 minutes to rescue.

The python was due to be transferred to the government’s Department of Wildlife before it died.

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A snake has defeated a crocodile in an epic five-hour battle at Lake Moondarra, in Queensland, Australia, which left onlookers shocked as the python slowly devoured its prey.

The incident near Mount Isa was captured on camera by local residents on Sunday.

The 10-ft snake, thought to be a python, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two struggled in the water.

The snake later brought the dead crocodile onto land and ate it.

The snake has defeated the crocodile in an epic five-hour battle at Lake Moondarra in Queensland

The snake has defeated the crocodile in an epic five-hour battle at Lake Moondarra in Queensland

In remarkable images captured by Tiffany Corlis, a local who was watching on, the python can be seen strangling and eating the crocodile, whose outline can then be seen inside the snake.

Tiffany Corlis said it appeared to take the snake around 15 minutes to eat the crocodile.

Queensland is home to some of the world’s most dangerous snakes, as well as saltwater crocodiles.

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Edward Archbold, the winner of a cockroach-eating competition, died shortly after eating dozens of the live insects and worms in Florida, authorities have said.

Edward Archbold, 32, became ill and collapsed at a pet shop where the contest took place in the city of Deerfield Beach on Friday.

About 30 others competed in the event at the Ben Siegel Reptile Store.

Officials are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine Edward Archbold’s cause of death.

None of the other contestants became ill afterwards, the sheriff’s office said.

“We feel terribly awful,” said Ben Siegel, the owner of the shop.

“He looked like he just wanted to show off and was very nice,” he said, adding that Edward Archbold did not appear to be ill before the competition.

A lawyer for Ben Siegel said all the contestants had signed disclaimers “accepting responsibility for their participation in this unique and unorthodox contest”.

The grand prize for the winner was a python, and Edward Archbold had planned to sell the snake to a friend who took him to the contest, according to the shop owner.

 

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US scientists have announced that the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida has been caught in the Everglades.

The snake measuring 17 ft 7 in (5.18 m) and weighing 164 lbs (74 kg) was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced.

The python – now dead – was pregnant with 87 eggs, also believed to be a record.

Non-native Burmese pythons have been blamed for a staggering decline of mammals in Florida’s Everglades.

The giant Burmese python measuring 17 ft 7 in (5.18 m) and weighing 164 lbs (74 kg) was pregnant with 87 eggs

The giant Burmese python measuring 17 ft 7 in (5.18 m) and weighing 164 lbs (74 kg) was pregnant with 87 eggs

Scientists say the latest discovery shows just how pervasive the snakes – native to South East Asia – have become in South Florida.

“It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild,” said Kenneth Krysko, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

“There’s nothing stopping them, and the native wildlife are in trouble.”

He said that the snake had feathers in its stomach that would help to identify the types of wildlife it was eating.

“A 17-and-a-half-foot snake could eat anything it wants,” he added.

Pythons kill their prey by coiling around it and suffocating it.

They have been known to swallow animals as large as deer and alligators.

After scientific investigation, the snake will be exhibited at the museum on the University of Florida campus for five years before being returned to the Everglades National Park.

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