An aerial photograph that appears to show a gigantic snake swimming along the remote waterway has emerged, sparking great concern among local communities.
But it is not clear whether the photograph is genuine, or a clever piece of photo-editing. Some suggested the ‘snake’ was in fact a log or a speed boat and others complained the colour of the river in the photo was too dark.
The most common theory is that the photo has been manipulated on a computer.
The image has even stumped the New Straits Times newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, which suggested readers decide for themselves.
However, on the banks of the river, villagers are convinced of the massive serpent’s existence and have even given it a name, Nabau, after an ancient sea serpent which can transform itself into the shapes of different animals.
Earlier this month scientists unearthed the fossil of a snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow.
The 45ft long monster – named Titanoboa – was so big that it lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles, squeezing them to death and devouring them whole.
Holy Schnikey! This makes an Anaconda look like a frickin’ earthworm.
Yikes! I always thought stories like that were nonsense for horror movies, but they actually found a 45-foot snake fossil? Crazy.
45 ft? That’s nearly the length of a tractor/trailer rig. I wonder what diameter this behemoth is (if it exists).
Looks a bit like the trail and wash of a speedboat to me.
Would be pretty cool if it’s real, but the photo is so low res and out of focus my gut tells me it’s fake.
It just woke up and it’s looking for a meal!!!!
Of course it only eats every 10,000 years
At #2
According to the article linked from Dvorak a couple weeks ago the Titanoboa would have came up to the average guys waist. So my guess about 36″.
The two greatest mysteries of our times: why you never see news of psychics winning the lottery and why alleged sightings of fantastic things are always documented with a crappy camera and/or in very unfavorable conditions.
Heck, even my cell phone can take better pictures than that, and I’d certainly have shot at least three times if I’d been there and thought it was a snake.
Stupid article.
#7 – Quite.
Aye, right. He just swam over from Atlantis, I suppose. Enough of this crap already.
I like Schnikey a lot!
It should be used much more often.
People are just too damn gullible nowadays.
Where can I get out of the human race?
Fake. Everybody knows the biggest snakes live in DC.
#3 is correct- it’s a boat.
That totally looks like giant sperm.
Nessie migrated to Borneo? Or is it the Mokele Mobembe?
Looks fake to me. Common sense should tell someone that this would not go unnoticed.
I am pretty certain th way a snake moves that it would not cause the wave action we see.
I doubt something that huge could feed itself in this era. But the Titanoboa must’ve been a monster, I’ll have to jump in the way-back machine and check him out.
Quite a coincidence that a few weeks after discovering the fossil remains of the Titanoboa in Colombia, a photo like this appears.
Source of world’s most abundant natural resource, snake oil.
Look at the scale of the photo folks. That snake would be about the size of a modern submarine, >300′
You would wonder how the central nervous system of a snake that length could cope. It would almost have to tell its tale to twitch 5 seconds before it begins to swim.
That is true. I live in the Amazon in Belém-do-Pará and always see a snake of that size here. 🙂
Only one thing is certain: It is not a snake.
Why didn’t the dumb-ss take the plane lower for a closer look?
What would a snake this size eat?
Yeah I know, anything it wants. ?8^)
The problem is where this picture was taken I don’t know of a decent food source for anything this big.
Real critters need their muchies.