Symptoms. A person with hyperparathyroidism may have severe symptoms, subtle ones, or none at all. More than 99 percent of the time, the parathyroid glands exhibit a benign enlargement, usually of only one gland, but sometimes more than one will be involved.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 9.75m and the heaviest to be 182 kg so if confirmed, this python would be the biggest snake ever kept in captivity. Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world and can eat animals as big as sheep.
1 of 4. February 4, 2009-- The biggest snake yet discovered, Titanoboa cerrejones, slithers alongside one of its presumed prey, a primitive crocodile, 60 million years ago in an artist's conception. (View a prehistoric time line .). At least 42 feet (13 meters) long and weighing 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms), the snake was longer than a city bus ... and heavier than a car, said University of Toronto Mississauga biologist Jason Head, who announced the find today. (Read the full story and watch video .).