Longest verifiably measured wild snake 🐍 7.22 m (23 ft 8 in) from head to tail - a female reticulated python, named Ibu Baron (“The Baroness”). She was recently discovered in the Maros region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in late 2025 and measured by Diaz Nugraha and Radu Frentiu on 18 January 2026. Ibu Baron is now in the care a local conservationist Budi Purwanto. | Guinness World Records

The longest snake - ever - in captivity is Medusa, a reticulated python (python reticulatus), owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. When measured on 12 October 2011, she was found to be 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) long. Medusa also holds the current 'Longest Snake - Living (captivity)' title. 🐍 ⁣ Reticulated pythons – named as such because of the grid-like pattern of its skin – are on average the world’s longest snakes, but adults normally grow an average of between 3-6 m (

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