Most of these sightings and accounts would usually be considered exaggerations although one piece of evidence that separates the giant anaconda from any other monsters is the tracks that they reportedly leave. At once there was a flurry of foam, and several heavy thumps against the boat's keel, shaking us as though we had run on a snag.' 44 soft-nosed bullet into its spine, ten feet below the wicked head. I sprang for my rifle as the creature began to make its way up the bank, and hardly waiting to aim smashed a. 'We were drifting easily along on the sluggish current not far below the confluence of Tigor and the Rio Negro when almost under the bow there appeared a triangular head and several feet of undulating body.

His claim received much ridicule although eventually Cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans came to his defense and said that Percy Fawcett's claim was honest and reliable. His account is as follows: The most famous account of a giant anaconda involved British explorer, Percy Fawcett, who reportedly killed and measured a 62 foot anaconda.

The Green Anaconda is the largest known living snake on Earth reaching lengths of up to 25 feet and weighs of up to 550 pounds, although for more than 100 years explorers and natives in the Amazon have reported see these snakes from 50-150 feet long with weights as extreme as 5 tons.

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