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:No it was not, Your so called "Forty-nine foot snake" was actually just 24 feet long upon quick further investigation. you really should try to look for a reliable up to date source ''outside'' the article before you repeat what everyone else has been falling for. Were all so gullible to believe that a living species of snake could be 49.7 feet long (14.85 meters long). whoever wrote that is clearly a cryptozoologist. No snake today could get that big though two [[Paleocene]] species, [[Giganthopis garstini]] and [[Madtsoia]] could grow to be 60 feet long (18 meters long). But they died out a long time ago. Any claims of living snakes that gargantuan are quickly discredited and mocked through critical evaluation and scrutiny. --[[User:Jj. hoaakkey|Jj. hoaakkey]] 00:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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I think I'm the user who posted the article on the "49 foot snake" but it was Java (a major island in Indonesia), not Thailand, and as you said, the creature inexplicably "shrank" when examined by a journalist. See the next article just below it about this "shrinkage" which I also posted at the same time. I had intended my comment on the first article to indicate it was unreliable, but didn't want to go so far as to use words like "lie" "false report" "mendacious" etc. One cannot really be sure of anything at a distance, but clearly the zookeeper had a potential for financial gain in claiming to have the world's largest captive snake if anyone believed him, and reports of his behavior suggest he was not unaware of this.
''Italic text''I was intrigued by the two Paleocene species you mentioned above and wondered if you could write articles on them. [[User:FurnaldHall|FurnaldHall]] 07:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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