{"id":461442,"date":"2026-02-06T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:39:08","slug":"watch-worlds-longest-wild-snake-found-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461442\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: World&#8217;s longest wild snake found in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Guinness World Records confirmed a massive reticulated python discovered in the Maros region of Indonesia is officially the longest wild snake to be formally measured.<\/p>\n<p>The record-keeping organization said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2026\/2\/indonesian-python-makes-gwr-hissstory-as-the-longest-measured-wild-snake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reviewed evidence confirming<\/a> the female snake measures 23 feet and 8 inches in length.\n<\/p>\n<p>The snake is currently in the care of conservationist Budi Purwanto, licensed snake handler Diaz Nugraha and natural history photographer Radu Frentiu.<\/p>\n<p>Nugraha and Frentiu said they went out in search of the impressively long snake after hearing of rumored sightings. They dubbed the serpent Ibu Baron, or &#8220;The Baroness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reticulated pythons typically grow to an adult length ranging from 9 feet, 10 inches to 19 feet, 2 inches.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Guinness World Records confirmed a massive reticulated python discovered in the Maros region of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":["post-461442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}