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The '''Bluff Downs Giant Python''' (''Liasis'' sp.) is a Critically Endangeredan extinct genus of [[snake]] from [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], that lived during the [[Pliocene]].

The Bluff Downs Giant Python hunted [[mammals]], [[birds]] and [[reptiles]] in the [[woodland]]s and vine thickets bordering Australian watercourses during Pliocene times. Its nearest living relative is the [[Olive Python]] (''Liasis olivacea'').

==Size==

The Bluff Downs Giant Python is estimated to growhave grown to 12m10m, making it at least a metre longer than the world's two longest snakes - the [[Anaconda]] of [[South America]] and the [[Reticulated Python]] of [[Asia]].

==Fossils==

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