the longest animal in the world
Humans can be tall or short, narrow or wide, but we don't tend to talk about how long our bodies are. That might explain why extreme length often catches our eye. And in any discussion of long animals, there are obvious leaders: snakes, the longest animals on land. In April 2016, construction workers building a motorway in Penang, Malaysia claimed to have discovered a reticulated python (Python reticulatus) that was 26ft 3in (8m) long.