Fluffy died on October, 26, 2010. This may be the nearest anyone could come to seeing a real dinosaur for Fluffy was dinosaur-sized. She was also very primitive, for as a python she even had a vestigial pelvis and hind limbs, which were remnants of its lizard ancestry, and could be externally viewed.
The longest python not in captivity according to Guinness World Records 2005, was a reticulated python, which was 32 ft. 9.5 in. It was killed in Celebes, Indonesia, in 1912.
(Sources: Guinness World Records 2005, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-jqmsKLC0, http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30002494/2010/09/2010-09-17-13-26-09-9-a-python-called-fluffy-is-declared-in-the-new-guin.jpeg, http://www.bird-eating-spiders.de/fluffy.jpg)
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My favorite uncle had a 6 foot boa constrictor named Cuddles when I was younger. It was dwarfed by this record holder but looked huge to me. It seems like his triangular head was the size of a mouse pad. His boa was big and scary looking to some but I always found him gentle and interesting. We used to enjoy wearing the snake, letting it crawl around and do it's thing (mostly slithering its tongue outward, rapidly, as a means of sensing the environment).
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