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Story: A 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...
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Just in case one of you thinks it might be true...
"The photograph claims to show a 55ft giant snake that is found in a forest of Malaysia (some versions of messages say China). This story became an internet sensation when it started spreading through emails, forums and social networking websites. However, the story is a hoax. No such story was found to be reported in the website of People’s Daily as mentioned in the story. The photograph is cleverly manipulated to mislead people. The snake is seen hanging from the digging bucket down to the extreme foreground which induces viewers to consider the people in the cab behind as an indication of scale. If we could see the actual size of the bucket, it would be easy to estimate the relative size of the snake. The normal size of a bull dozer bucket will be around 3-5 feet, and the snake in the picture is about 5 times the size of the bucket, which makes it around 15 to 25 feet at the maximum. Moreover, the snake cannot be Boa because they do not belong to that part of the world. The markings on the backside of the snake indicate that it is a reticulated python. Therefore, this picture message claiming to show 55 feet snake in the forest of Malaysia is a definite hoax."
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