The world mourns as the longest-ever captured python dies in Malaysia

The reticulated python, estimated to be 8metres (26ft) long and 250kg (39st 5lb) in weight, was found on a construction site on Penang island last week and it’s thought to be the longest ever recorded. It died three days later after giving birth.

  
Malaysia’s Civil Defence Department, the team that caught the snake, said it took them 30 minutes to trap it and it was due to be transferred to the government’s Department of Wildlife before it died.