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A 44-year-old woman in Indonesia was attacked and killed by a reticulated python nearly eight meters long. When her husband found her, the snake had already begun to devour her body.

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New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This ...