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Mike Warner, 73, and his son Greg, 44, believe they have photographs which show the giant reptile, which measures 40 metres long by two metres in diameter, slithering through the Peruvian rainforest. The men took the aerial photographs of the creature, which is dark brown in colour and known locally as Yacumama, during a 12-day expedition to the Amazon in March. Greg said reports of Yacumama, which translates as 'mother of the water', abound throughout the Amazon basin and history.
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'This has been my father's project for 23 years and it all goes back to one photograph he saw of a large python which had just swallowed a goat.
Mike Warner spent his life savings on the expedition |
Snake capturing antelope near the Amazon River. The Yacumama is much larger in size. During the second expedition, Warner succeeded in finding and photographing areas where Yacumama lives, gaps are formed near rivers, their trenches (some almost 2 meters wide) and photographing some of the giant snakes, not Yacumama but just as impressive.
- With recent increase in flood frequency of Amazon River, internet space has seen many claims about large creatures surfacing as a result. Earlier, there were also some videos and pictures claiming to show a 100 feet Snake found in Amazon River basin. Quite a number of viewers also believed in the video(s) claiming to show the huge Snake.
- Photographic evidence of a snake at least 100 feet long capturing an antelope along the banks of the Amazon River. Photo gallery of expedition's hunt for Yacumama.
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'My father and I were estranged for about 10 years, but we got together at Christmas and I started helping him by reading his research material because he is partially blind.'
'The more I read about it the more interested I got, so I said to him why don't we go and finish the job by finding it.'
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Mike, who worked as a lithographer before retiring, spent his life savings funding the trip. Greg said they decided to start their hunt for the snake by following up on the reports of the British archaeologist and explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett.
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Colonel Fawcett was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society of London in 1906 to map an area of the Peruvian Amazon in a dispute over rubber production. Percy Fawcett recorded seeing large trails in the forest which we called channels so we tasked satellites to take pictures of this area to look for the existence of these channels. 'We looked for these channels and thought if we can prove these channels exist we could maybe find some evidence which pointed towards the existence of the snake. 'What we didn't expect to get was a picture of one of these snakes in the channel. 'We think we have found something that is extraordinary.'
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Since coming back from their trip the father and son have shared the findings from the 700 photographs and five hours of video footage taken on the trip with the National Geographic Society and Queen's University Belfast.
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'Although largely thought to be a giant anaconda it is possible that this is a species previously unknown to science,' he said. 'It is believed that these creatures are both aquatic and capable of burrowing deep into the earth. As this snake favours confluences, it stands to reason that an important part of its diet may include fish as well as other local animals including caiman, monkeys and other snakes. We believe that this creature may even be cannibalistic.'
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Greg said he and his father are hoping to attract private funding for another expedition to the Amazon in October to research their findings further. Article from BBC News.
