tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post5306012855541702462..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: GIANT ANACONDAS AND OTHER SUPER-SIZED CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL SNAKESAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-23923901668745586872022-12-20T22:07:57.554+00:002022-12-20T22:07:57.554+00:00What about the huge anacondas claimed to have been...What about the huge anacondas claimed to have been seen by Mr. Up de Graff?<br />https://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com/2015/08/up-de-graff-and-giant-anacondas.htmlMalcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-3842228802228521022022-09-19T08:42:41.654+01:002022-09-19T08:42:41.654+01:00It seems increasingly to common to report someone&...It seems increasingly to common to report someone's work for some misdemeanor or other. "Shocking content" indeed. They should visit my site sometime, lol!<br />Giant snakes are a long time favourite subject of mine and yes those "shocking" images are readily available online.<br />Fawcett's encounter is one of the best as it seems devoid of exaggeration, with the colonel even being surprised at the narrow girth of the snake despite it's extraordinary length.<br />I have a copy of Exporation Fawcett in my book collection and I'm very intrigued by another cryptid encounter related therein: The altercation with the Maricoxis, who are described as hairy primitive hominids.<br />Fawcett was declared a liar for both the snake and Maricoxi stories but one wonders why he would make up such a story amid all the genuine adventures he relates in his journals ?Martin Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667331992294612673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-89114144079733843862021-01-31T16:47:45.430+00:002021-01-31T16:47:45.430+00:00Hi there, Thanks for your interesting report. Is M...Hi there, Thanks for your interesting report. Is Majerda the same place as Medjerda, in Tunisia? If so, I have some other accounts on file of extra-large mystery snakes reported from Tunisia. All the best, Dr Karl Shuker.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-68767766322205310372021-01-31T11:47:44.094+00:002021-01-31T11:47:44.094+00:00My dying grand father always told us stories about...My dying grand father always told us stories about an encounter with a huge scary "flatened head"snake that tried to attack him 70 years ago.<br />According to his story, it was winter, the snake was laying in a big corn field, and he stombled on it by accident. when it felt threatened, and according to him, this snake stood up and it had a flatened top part of her body, and it started hissing. he said that it had some hair on its body and that it was so huge it could eat him entirely.. the thing is at that time this place (near Majerda) was known for big snakes and people hunted them down without any records.<br />Anyway, I have always thought that it was one of his fairytails, or that he made up that story, and after reading this, i thought that maybe his story would help solidify your study.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188458024950435117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-22303165435897063142020-09-09T05:23:33.423+01:002020-09-09T05:23:33.423+01:00https://youtu.be/O6xZUFaLOvghttps://youtu.be/O6xZUFaLOvgDSTRUNAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287328905480014063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-68844508845620118062019-01-21T22:50:33.394+00:002019-01-21T22:50:33.394+00:00To me it is entirely possible to have individual s...To me it is entirely possible to have individual snakes of various species exceed what science states are the "maximum" sizes, particularly in more ancient times, and also in light of the recent discovery of the Titanoboa fossils. <br />Once (a few decades ago when my children were small) had to shoot a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus Oreganus Oreganus) that refused to relocate from my very rural yard where it had denned up for years prior to our purchase of the property . It measured over 6 feet, but at the time I certainly wasn't thinking about scientific matters in regard to its demise, so didn't think at all about recording it for posterity<br /><a href="https://ogs.ny.gov/disclaim/default.asp?url=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html" rel="nofollow">https://ogs.ny.gov/disclaim/default.asp?url=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html</a><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/url?q=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html" rel="nofollow">http://maps.google.com/url?q=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html</a><br /><a href="http://tc.faa.gov/content/leaving.asp?extlink=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html" rel="nofollow">http://tc.faa.gov/content/leaving.asp?extlink=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html</a><br /><a href="https://ushik.ahrq.gov/exitDisclaimer.jsp?system=hitsp&url=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html" rel="nofollow">https://ushik.ahrq.gov/exitDisclaimer.jsp?system=hitsp&url=https://taiwebs.com/windows/download-ccleaner-pro-57.html</a>softwarehttps://taiwebs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-70243315766016473302016-11-12T23:19:05.250+00:002016-11-12T23:19:05.250+00:00Wonderful post. I am searching awesome news and id...Wonderful post. I am searching awesome news and ideas. What I have found from your site, it is actually highly content.<br />But nowadays there aren't snakes as big as the <a href="http://snake-facts.weebly.com/titanoboa.html" rel="nofollow">Titanoboa snake</a><br /> Moreninha76https://www.blogger.com/profile/05417253708035950762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-85205900675448710582015-10-15T02:04:04.026+01:002015-10-15T02:04:04.026+01:00The one with the truck definitely can be real... ...The one with the truck definitely can be real... Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026172239488009581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-65820735223428658272015-10-15T02:02:20.835+01:002015-10-15T02:02:20.835+01:00I think the one with the truck can be 50% real cau...I think the one with the truck can be 50% real cause...think about it what do a snake needs...heat-water-and food source and it was never determine how big they can really get. A place like the wet lands is perfect, but if you want prof your dead...who would be dumb to find one that big. If you don't believe that they can get that big i saw a show that talked about anacondas and one swallowed a gator and survived, but like 4 weeks later it died cause the gator skin was too tough to digest. Like the expert said something needs to be in water....so nobody knows.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026172239488009581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-17556305459439151762015-09-10T08:13:28.900+01:002015-09-10T08:13:28.900+01:00To me it is entirely possible to have individual s...To me it is entirely possible to have individual snakes of various species exceed what science states are the "maximum" sizes, particularly in more ancient times, and also in light of the recent discovery of the Titanoboa fossils. <br />Once (a few decades ago when my children were small) had to shoot a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus Oreganus Oreganus) that refused to relocate from my very rural yard where it had denned up for years prior to our purchase of the property . It measured over 6 feet, but at the time I certainly wasn't thinking about scientific matters in regard to its demise, so didn't think at all about recording it for posterity (or science).<br /> It wasn't until much later that I learned that they are, at least according to herpetologists, only supposed to reach a maximum length of 60 inches (5 feet). I suppose it is possible that its musculature relaxed after it died so as to make it stretch a bit, but at least 12 inches? Although my snake wasn't of gargantuan proportions, I think that there must be many other snake species who, in the right circumstances not only appear outside the boundaries of their scientifically accepted habitats, but grow to exceptional sizes. <br /> I think my own experience was like that of many people who found themselves in a situation that only later they discover was supposedly "impossible" according to accepted science. <br />For the record, I am not a fan of killing any animal, even potentially lethal ones, unless no other recourse is available(i.e. relocation, etc.) and it poses a direct threat to safety.<br /><br />People have always behaved like people it seems, so it isn't far-fetched to think that even in the period of the siege of Carthage that some ancient collector might have "transplanted" that snake, collected from a distant area, releasing it when it got too big to keep as a pet any longer. If it had no competition in its "adopted" environment from others of its kind, who knows for sure how large it could have grown? Of course this is merely speculation, but well within the bounds of possibility.<br />Another factor is the propensity of people, from ancient times to the present, to want to destroy giant specimens of just about anything they fear or want to immortalize as a "trophy". Over time, of course this would make such specimens diminish in numbers, if not disappear altogether. Monniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17322787494494079714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-55332320451717077862013-11-25T04:16:02.076+00:002013-11-25T04:16:02.076+00:00the old magazine cruise south. black river Brazil....the old magazine cruise south. black river Brazil. demonstrates either between 1986 there was a 12 meter anaconda wants inhabited the black and the Orinoco River. fishermen and tourist wants disappeared. afternoons. Only in 1988 she was shot dead. and so demonstrates his great carcass. Green was a rare black snake. and that in 1990 the director if the director luiz losa expired on real legend and did anaconda movie. in Brazil. and in this he placed a robotic anaconda 15 feet. for a scene of tropical terror. anaconda 12. Until 1986 to win reticulated python 9m.ed juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512603538196695530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-70964949382432586052013-09-29T21:56:24.596+01:002013-09-29T21:56:24.596+01:00From the most serious cryptozoology books one find...From the most serious cryptozoology books one finds many accounts of many humps or many vertical flexures. Some described as many humped may be vertical flexured. Some accounts give more exact and even fascinating details. At least one described the vertical flexures originating just behind the front area and then moving down to the tail in what I would describe as a whip-like motion. Some other accounts approximate to this kind of description. I am not suggesting that we have a Koch-like creature, but only that there may be room for up to three flexures besides the neck and flukes/tail. It is well known that some such accounts may be better accounted for by distant birds flying up and down or numbers of seals or porpoises folowing each other. Many other accounts are difficult to explain in these ways. Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-11359402125431036222013-09-26T00:37:08.157+01:002013-09-26T00:37:08.157+01:00Current palaeontological opinion is that basilosau...Current palaeontological opinion is that basilosaurs had very rigid, inflexible vertebral columns, despite their great length and elongated body form. However, if a lineage had survived to the present day, all those millions of years of continued evolution may conceivably have engineered a much more flexible vertebral column, which may indeed in turn be responsible for vertically undulating elongate or serpentiform aquatic cryptids. All extremely speculative, of course, but certainly not impossible.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-6273353891022876802013-09-25T23:25:11.997+01:002013-09-25T23:25:11.997+01:00It seems that the muscles of the spine could pull ...It seems that the muscles of the spine could pull it together so that two humps form at once and then release so that two humps flatten out. This would conceivably be a very efficient form of locomotion.Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-77913041023030179012013-09-25T20:49:25.273+01:002013-09-25T20:49:25.273+01:00As a zoologist, is it absurd to suppose there may ...As a zoologist, is it absurd to suppose there may exist a basilosaur-like creature with multiple vertical undulations as its mode of locomotion? A whale flexes at neck, back and fluke but couldn't one have evolved to flex at more than one place along the spine? I am aware that the usual explanation is that whatever is seen does not really do this but various other explanations can account for it. I suspect this is sometimes correctly described. It would account for the great speed often described and their elusiveness. To allow for one more spinal flexure would require perhaps a longer slimmer body than the basilosaur is usually supposed to have had.Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-45321340041188734132013-09-24T19:10:46.733+01:002013-09-24T19:10:46.733+01:00You have to understand that they are reported to h...You have to understand that they are reported to have a mode of locomotion involving multiple vertical undulations. If so, then they could get about on land... They would also be very fast at sea (as reported). This would have to be a more elongate sort of basilosaur-like creature than current accepted reconstructions...Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-40324365289475331382013-09-24T18:25:41.283+01:002013-09-24T18:25:41.283+01:00A slightly speculative topic like this calls for c...A slightly speculative topic like this calls for caution :) ... Somehow, you have forgotten the reports of giant dragons from Scandinavia. The reason I bring this up is that some of these report the dragon getting caught in a mountain pass. This would make sense if a basilosaur-like creature with a torso was venturing either on land or up stream. Perhaps after fish runs. Could this explain some of the reports of giant snakes in the tropics as well? :) Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-34348811871752694732013-09-22T12:50:45.381+01:002013-09-22T12:50:45.381+01:00I've always been fascinated by the van Lierde ...I've always been fascinated by the van Lierde photograph. Why is it not more accepted as evidence? It was from a reliable source, and there are things in the photograph to provide scale.Alex Bledsoehttp://alexbledsoe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-17191696221565415282013-09-21T20:49:45.183+01:002013-09-21T20:49:45.183+01:00The Katanga picture has always intrigued me, but l...The Katanga picture has always intrigued me, but looking closer today ... where's the head? most of the pic is in focus, but it definitely becomes fuzzy near the front (presumably head) and almost appears to become the brush, or whatever the vegetation is. Triangular head, green color ... anaconda - yet none live in Africa. Unknown species, which has never been seen or recorded since? Rose up 10 feet? (I know King Cobras can, but a 40-50 foot snake?). And why not more pics? seems a little fishy at this point, but I was enthralled as a kid by the interview. jamesravnoreply@blogger.com