{"id":464077,"date":"2026-02-07T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464077\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:50:22","slug":"the-worlds-longest-measured-snake-discovered-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464077\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Longest Measured Snake Discovered in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A giant female reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) discovered deep in the forests of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi late last year is now believed to be the longest measured snake in the world at 7.22 metres (23 feet 8 inches), the Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Named Ibu Baron or \u2018The Baroness\u2019, the female snake would incredibly occupy the entire width of a standard FIFA goal post, a post on the Guinness Book of World Records\u2019 <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2026\/2\/indonesian-python-makes-gwr-hissstory-as-the-longest-measured-wild-snake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The snake could also be said to be around the length of six-and-a-half shopping carts\/trolleys in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder anaesthesia, when snakes\u2019 bodies fully relax, she could be at least 10% longer \u2014 so in reality her true length is likely nearer 7.9 m (26 ft). But owing to the inherent risks of anaesthetic, GWR believes that animals should only ever be \u201cput under\u201d for safety reasons or necessary medical procedures, so this has not been put to the test,\u201d the article noted.<\/p>\n<p>The article credited local Indonesian conservationist Budi Purwanto for initially saving the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIbu Baron almost certainly owes her life to Purwanto, who acted quickly when news of her discovery emerged in December 2025 to acquire her from those that found her, ensuring that she came to no harm,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n<p>Ibu Baron was assessed and measured by two people-Diaz Nugraha \u2014 a wildlife guide, rescuer and licensed snake handler from Kalimantan, Borneo, along with Radu Frentiu \u2014 an explorer and natural-history photographer who has resided in Bali for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mutual associate of Frentiu\u2019s and GWR\u2019s \u2014 George Beccaloni, Director of the Wallace Correspondence Project \u2014 helped to relay details of the discovery,\u201d the piece noted.<\/p>\n<p>Both Nugraha and Frentiu had heard rumors of a supersized snake and decided to go to Sulawesi to see it for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The location where Ibu Baron was found is the Maros County of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant female reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) discovered deep in the forests of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,4805,191142,237873,128,15035,41103,338],"class_list":["post-464077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-indonesia","tag-pythons","tag-reticulated-pythons","tag-science","tag-snakes","tag-sulawesi","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464077","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=464077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}