The longest python in the world dies

The world's longest python in captivity has died in a zoo in Ohio, USA, after spending time with a tumor.

Columbus zoo staff photographed with Fluffy python. (Photo: AP).

Fluffy is the name of a python with a body length of 7.3 m and a weight of 136 kg in Columbus Zoo, Columbus City, Ohio State, USA. Guinness Book of World Records notes that this is the longest body in captivity.

AP said that Columbus zoo employees found Fluffy died on the morning of October 27. The test results showed that it died by a tumor.

Since coming to the zoo in 2007, Fluffy - which belongs to the python family - became the focus of visitors' attention.

Pythons are pythons with mesh-like shapes on their skin. Their average body length ranges from 3 to 6 m. A python larger than Fluffy (9 m) used to live in Indonesia, but it was killed in 1912.