Could the mystery of giant snakes in the Amazon jungle be finally solved?
For centuries man has been fascinated by tales of giant beasts lurking in remote corners of the globe. The obvious, and closest to home, example is the enduring myth of the Loch Ness monster, the supposed only existing relic of some long extinct species. Every so often the myth is resurrected and expeditions are mounted to find supporting evidence, but with no success to date. Similar tales exist of huge snakes, reaching 40 metres in length and two metres in diameter, living in the murky depths of the Amazon rainforest. British archaeologist and explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society of London in 1906 to map an area of the Peruvian Amazon in a dispute over valuable rubber production. While on the expedition in 1925 he vanished on another trip to the area he claimed to have shot a giant anaconda 62 feet in length and 12 inches in diameter. However, his account like those of others who claim to have seen even bigger specimens, have never been
