The world's longest snake found in Japan

The Environment and Health Research Institute in Okinawa Prefecture (Japan) on October 31 said that the longest snake in the world Habu is 2.42m long, just discovered in the village of Onna.

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Venom of Habu snake paralyzes human organs.

Earlier, on October 12, a man in a car saw the Habu snake crawling across the street near the residential area of ​​Onna village.

Habu snakes live only in Okinawa prefecture and Amami island district, southwest Japan. They have an average length of 1.3m and rarely exceed 2m in length. Earlier, the 2.41m-long snake was found on Amami-Oshima island in 1992, determined to be the longest in the world.

About 100 people were bitten by the Habu snake every year in Okinawa.'The longest snake venom in the world when biting people will penetrate immediately into the body and paralyze the internal organs' , said Koki Terada, researcher at the Institute of Environmental and Health Research. Okinawa warning.