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[[User:Comatose51|Comatose51]] 01:22, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
:No liability issue - every single page of Wikipedia has a link to [[Wikipedia:General_disclaimer]] at the bottom. True and/or verifiable? I don't know. I think you did the right thing to move it here. [[User:FreplySpang|FreplySpang]] [[User talk:FreplySpang|(talk)]] 01:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
==Report of 49-foot retic==▼
Just a story you might want to keep an eye on a possible 49ft Retic http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750/ns/world_news/t/-foot-python-captured-indonesia/#.T6rGOOuZ3k8▼
[[User:QueenAlexandria|QueenAlexandria]] [[User talk:QueenAlexandria|(talk)]] 20:39, 09 May 2012 (UTC)▼
:Sorry, but that one's come and gone - when someone went out there with a tape measure, it wasn't even 20 feet, IIRC, and certainly nowhere near 50 feet. Exactly why media reports are not reliable sources for this topic. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 20:14, 9 May 2012 (UTC)▼
== I disagree with the above: ==
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There's several good reasons for doubt: lack of managable prey to justify such an increased size, current low atmopsheric O2 (all "supergiant" snakes are from the Eocene, during higher oxygen levels), current low temperatures even in the tropics, the ease of spotting such a giant while basking, the resulting ease of shooting it and bringing back at least the skeleton, etc. But most of all - '''doubt is the foundation of all science''. No claim is accepted without evidence, whether it's claims of 50 foot snakes or just claims that a particular gene does what you think it does. Everything must be supported by evidence. Anything else isn't science, it's science fiction. [[User:Mokele|Mokele]] ([[User talk:Mokele|talk]]) 02:52, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
: Although I do agree with you on the high temperatures but Asia has a population of elephants, rhino's,tigers and huge crocodiles so I don't see how a large serpent couldn't feed on those animals which are just as big as some of the large fauna that the prehistoric supergiant snakes fed on and another thing pythons found in Asia as well as pythons found everywhere that inhabit very wooded areas are that they tend to hide in burrows a lot of the time or even in caves which would mean a large snake probably wouldn't be seen so easily it is true pythons tend too enjoy hiding under ground a lot of the time during the day time hours the only other really good point you made that they would probably seen when basking in order to warm their bodies.
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:::There were, for example, six fatal attacks between 1934 and 1973. In one such attack, a father entered his dwelling to find a python had killed two of his children and was swallowing one of them headfirst. The father killed the snake with his bolo knife and found his third child, a six-month-old daughter, who was unharmed. " [[User:Heavenlyblue|Heavenlyblue]] ([[User talk:Heavenlyblue|talk]]) 00:26, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
▲==Report of 49-foot retic==
▲Just a story you might want to keep an eye on a possible 49ft Retic http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750/ns/world_news/t/-foot-python-captured-indonesia/#.T6rGOOuZ3k8
▲[[User:QueenAlexandria|QueenAlexandria]] [[User talk:QueenAlexandria|(talk)]] 20:39, 09 May 2012 (UTC)
▲:Sorry, but that one's come and gone - when someone went out there with a tape measure, it wasn't even 20 feet, IIRC, and certainly nowhere near 50 feet. Exactly why media reports are not reliable sources for this topic. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 20:14, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
== Longest specimen in captivity ==
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