ULAR 55 KAKI/16.7 METER PANJANG

photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has become an internet sensation. It was originally posted in a thread on the website of the People’s Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper in China.The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road outside Guping city, Jiangxi province. They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to bulldoze a huge mound of earth.On the third dig, the operator found there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake appeared

The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.