The biggest snake in the world makes a ball python look like a dwarf ... Blood pythons aren't as popular as boa constrictors and ball pythons in the pet trade, but many keepers appreciate them ...

Also called the scrub python, it is the longest snake found in Australia. They average around five metres but some have been spotted measuring over 8 metres as well.

At almost twice the length of a London bus, this python can justly lay claim to being the world's longest snake. It measures just short of 50ft and weighs an astonishing 70 stone - also a record.

Guinness World Records reports the biggest reticulated python ever captured was 32 feet, 9.5 inches, and the longest living in captivity was a 25-foot, 2-inch snake that died in 2011 in Kansas ...