History Film / Anaconda

** The opening title crawl claims that anacondas grow up to 40 feet in length. While there are anecdotal accounts of anacondas (& other large constrictor snakes) growing up to 40 feet or longer which is probably what this claim is based on, most herpetologists consider this implausible [[note]] while not entirely impossible due to reptiles not really having a set growth rate, it would require the individual snake to be extremely long lived due to the growth slowing down in old age or to have a genetic mutation like gigantism [[/note]]; there are reputable claims of anacondas growing up to 26 feet long, and an anaconda skin recovered from the Brazilian jungle reportedly measured 32.8 feet, but 10-15 foot snakes are far more common. Scientists believe that claims of even larger snakes may originate from skins and other remains that were stretched or distorted when preserved as well as general exaggeration and/or misidentification (some of the aformentioend claims get rather ludicrous, describing snakes of up to sixty feet or even over a hundred feet). There is at least one species of prehistoric snake which did grow that large, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa Titanoboa]]'', but it went extinct about 58 million years ago [[note]]some cryptozoologists have suggested there may be relic populations due to the aformentioned accounts, though this too is considered implausible[[/note]].

** The opening title crawl claims that anacondas grow up to 40 feet in length. While there are anecdotal accounts of anacondas (& other large constrictor snakes) growing up to 40 feet or longer which is probably what this claim is based on, most herpetologists consider this implausible [[note]] while not entirely impossible due to reptiles not really having a set growth rate, it would require the indivual snake to be extremely long lived due to the growth slowing down in old age [[/note]]; there are reputable claims of anacondas growing up to 26 feet long, and an anaconda skin recovered from the Brazilian jungle reportedly measured 32.8 feet, but 10-15 foot snakes are far more common. Scientists believe that claims of even larger snakes may originate from skins and other remains that were stretched or distorted when preserved. There is at least one species of prehistoric snake which did grow that large, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa Titanoboa]]'', but it went extinct about 58 million years ago [[note]]some cryptozoologyists have suggested there may be relic populations due to the aformentioned accounts, though this too is considered implausible[[/note]].

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The anacondas of the third movie [[SerialEscalation are more dangerous than the ones before]] because they were genetically engineered.