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Friend of mine grew up in Malaysia and they'd get snakes of this length. Once a giant snake crossed the road and took up the entire width of the road. Others have reported similar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+as+wide+as+a+road

AFAICT, muscles scale with the size so there's no reason to assume that length would reduce its speed during an assault.

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>AFAICT, muscles scale with the size so there's no reason to assume that length would reduce its speed during an assault.

Muscles scale on the square of their radius, their weight on the cube. An ant could put any powerlifter to shame pound for pound.

Do ants have muscles?

Sure, mesosoma (middle part of the body) in ants is mostly muscles.

All animals have

Wait, those are very different. Is the snake's width the same as the road's width? (Like some sci-fi T-rex) Or the snake's length the same as the road's width? (Like a fairly long snake on a fairly narrow one-lane road)

(I'm thinking of that "10-foot dragon" meme, iykyk)

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