This enormous 18ft anaconda was successfully captured by a team of daring biologists - during a tropical rainforest exploration. Niall McCann, a 29-year-old biologist from Cardiff, pounced on the slithering jungle giant when he happened across it on a bank of the Rewa River in Guyana. The monster reptile weighed around 100kg and had a 27in girth. Niall is an avid adventurer and has rowed the Atlantic and trekked across Greenland's Polar Ice Cap. He has a passion for handling creatures that would petrify most people and had always dreamed of catching one of these massive snakes. He said: "I'd always dreamed of seeing an anaconda and I knew that our work in Gcondauyana would give us a real possibility of seeing one. "I was trying to hold its head to the ground and it kept trying to turn its head to bite me - it was a wrestle. "Its strength was amazing and when a ripple went through its body it shook all of us."
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