Construction workers in Brazil have stumbled upon one of the most frightening creatures in the planet a ten meters long anaconda. The snake measuring 32.8 feet and weighing over 400 kilos, was discovered after the workers set off a controlled demolition explosion to destroy a cave in Belo Monte Dam to make way for their project. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesUtter rubbish,
Oct 01st, 2016 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0probably another conspiracy theory,
where have they hidden the foot pump..lol
Hissing Sid's cousin?
Oct 01st, 2016 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +1So they want to 'blast' a cavern section and nobody did a prior survey to discover the potential geostructural ramifications?
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are so stupid, these so called 'engineers' in SA.
Killing this creature deliberately would be unacceptable to many, including me, killing it seemingly because they did not know it was there is sheer incompetence: what if someone had been in there?
I bet they killed it for the publicity.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better publicity would have been to feed Lula to it....only problem, the snake might have puked him up.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol,
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0interestingly, was it a male or female,
and what are the chances of more family members, looking for their lost one,
Watch out workers, they may be hunting you...lol
Frightening creature?
Oct 04th, 2016 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Judging from the outcome, the only frightening actors here are human beings.
This sad story reveals the extent to which a model of development based on destruction is obliterating the last remainings of natural habitat in our battered planet.
In a way, we all die a bit together with the majestic anaconda.
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