Some things are simply too amazing to overlook. Fun, too. I'm sure that you've all heard, seen and/or read about Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's stupid human trick. For the one person that hasn't here's the blunder from down under. Note infant clutched by Irwin.

We think that while foolhardy, it doesn't make for really BIG news. For really BIG reptilian news, you need to familiarize yourself with what is undoubtedly a world record reticualted python. First a text clip:

Python tips the scales at 447kg

January 2, 2004

Jakarta: Indonesian villagers claim they've captured a python that is nearly 5m longer than the longest captured snake recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records.

Local newspaper Republika splashed two photographs on its back page of a large, fat reptile lying coiled in a box. But it was difficult to confirm the claim as there were no measuring tapes or objects alongside the snake to compare its size.

Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a zoo in Curugsewu village on the country's main island of Java.

A local government official said the reticulated python measured 14.85m and weighed in at 447kg.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest captured snake to be 9.75m.

The heaviest - a Burmese Python kept in Gurnee, Illinois - weighs 182.76kg.

Republika said the snake, only recently put on public display, ate up to four dogs a month.

Reticulated pythons are the world's longest snakes.

They are capable of eating animals as large as sheep, and have been known to attack and consume humans.

The species is native to the swamps and jungles of South-east Asia. - Sapa-AP link

I believe that it is pretty widely accepeted that the Anaconda is the world's heaviest snake, as they tend to be much larger in girth for a given lenght than the reticualted python. This discovery however, may change everything.

Text not enough to sate your sweet tooth for super sized serpents? How about a movie of the menacing mammoth?

It is REALLY BIG!

And finally for those of you who want your own entry into the brothers Guiness book of the absurd, order a set of Gempler's Snake tongs. (I think the ones in the photo are a bit on the wee side for 50 foot jungle denizens, beeter get two).

I just did a quick search on the anaconda and it is still regarded as the heaviest snake in the world. If this python 'specs out' to its hype, we'll have a new king.