Monster snake captured

THIS enormous 18ft anaconda was successfully captured by a team of daring biologists - during a tropical rainforest exploration.

Niall McCann, a 29-year-old biologist from Cardiff, pounced on the slithering jungle giant when he happened across it on a bank of the Rewa River in Guyana.

The monster reptile weighed around 100kg and had a 27in girth.

Niall is an avid adventurer and has rowed the Atlantic and trekked across Greenland's Polar Ice Cap.

He has a passion for handling creatures that would petrify most people and had always dreamed of catching one of these massive snakes.
He said: "I'd always dreamed of seeing an anaconda and I knew that our work in Gcondauyana would give us a real possibility of seeing one.

"I was trying to hold its head to the ground and it kept trying to turn its head to bite me - it was a wrestle.
"Its strength was amazing and when a ripple went through its body it shook all of us."

Anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world and can weigh up to a whopping 250kg.
They squeeze their prey to death before swallowing them whole, and have been known to attack jaguars and humans.