The Penang Civil Defence Department was called in. Herme Herisyam, an official on that team, said it took a half-hour to capture the slithery beast.

“It is eight metres in length and weighs about 250kg,” Herisyam told the Guardian.

Or more than 26 feet long and 550 pounds. If an official measurement confirms this, it will be the longest snake on record.

Currently, the Guinness World Record-holder is Medusa, a reticulated python who resides in Kansas City, Mo. When she was measured in 2011, she was 25 feet 2 inches long. According to Guinness World Records, 15 men were required to hold her for measurement.

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Medusa is currently “part of [the] family” at the Edge of Hell Haunted House, according to a promotional video for Full Moon Productions, which owns the attraction.

For dinner, Medusa has eaten a 40-pound deer.

Before she took the title, a 24-foot reticulated python named Fluffy held the title of longest serpent.

We’ll never know what our new snake from Malaysia enjoyed when dining out, because the python died Sunday night just after giving birth, only three days after being captured. Muhammad Aizat, another member of the Penang Civil Defense Department team that caught the snake, told the BBC that the stress of being chased may have made giving birth fatal.