Photos: The World’s Longest Snake

She weighs more than 300lbs, is 25ft long and needs at least 15 people to hold her.
Now Medusa has slithered into the Guinness World record books as the world’s largest snake living in captivity…
The massive python, lives in the Edge of Hell haunted house attraction in Kansas City, eats a 40lb animal about once a week but could easily eat something weighing more than 100lbs.

Reticulated python Medusa, has just new Guinness World Records 2013 book for being the longest snake ever to live in captivity. Medusa’s primary diet consists of a combination of rabbits, hogs and deer, served to her every two weeks. Staff knows her as the sloppiest eater within attraction, as she’s been known to accidentally bite into herself instead of her dinner. Representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records have verified her new title and she will now join the book for 2013.

Medusa is owned by Full Moon Productions, a haunted house attraction in Kansas City, Missouri

THE WORLD GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS PRESENTS WEIRD AND WACKY ENTRIES FOR THIS YEAR

It's been a record-breaking summer thanks to the incredible efforts of our athletes. But even the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis would struggle to compete with some of the entries in the latest Guinness Book of World Records.

Among the wacky wonders to find a place in the 2013 edition is Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail and his monstrous biceps, and a man with the tallest mohican hairstyle, measuring a towering 3ft 8in.

It's not just humans either, with all creatures great and small snatching a few records — from a mighty Great Dane to a teeny bull.

Biggest biceps: Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail, 24, from Massachusetts, has spent ten years pumping iron twice a day to get his 31in biceps. He eats lots of chicken rather than spinach - which he hates

The 57th version of best-selling reference book also features new verified entries for the world's heaviest sportswoman and the most conquests of Mount Everest, as well as the tallest ever dog.
Being published in 22 languages in more than 100 countries, the 2013 Guinness World Records is expected to sell around 2.7 million copies and documents numerous new extremes relating to the human body.

 

These include 86-year-old Johanna Quaas, a retired PE teacher from Leipzig, Germany, who is named the oldest gymnast; Egyptian-born Moustafa Ismail, recognised for having the largest 'guns' - biceps and triceps - with a circumference of 25.5in; and London-based sumo wrestler Sharran
Alexander, who weighs 203.21 kg (32 stone), who was named the world's heaviest sportswoman. Bodybuilder Mr Ismail, now living in Franklin, Massachusetts, has arms with a greater circumference than the average human head.

Biggest horse: Big Jake, a nine-year-old Belgian gelding, from Winsconsin, U.S., tops 20 hands - or almost 7ft

Meet the real-life Popeye and his 31 inch biceps (which are as big as a grown-man’s waist!

An Egyptian-born bodybuilder has just had his  31 inch biceps crowned the biggest in the world.
Moustafa Ismail, 24, has spent ten years pumping iron twice a day and his upper arms now have the same circumference as a grown man’s waist.
But despite his cartoon proportions he hates spinach.

Give us a lift: Model Jessica Jerrard gets a lift from Moustafa Ismail, 24, who has the largest biceps in the world and is visiting London to launch the new Guinness Book of Records

Moustafa Ismail moved from his birthplace in Egypt to the U.S. with his wife so he could use better bodybuilding facilities