Picture of 100ft-long 'snake' sparks fears of mythical monster in Borneo
According to legend, the Nabau was a terrifying snake more than 100ft in length and with a dragon's head and seven nostrils.
But now local villagers living along the Baleh river in Borneo believe the mythical creature has returned after this photo of a gigantic snake swimming along the remote waterways has emerged.
The picture, taken by a member of a disaster team monitoring flood
Even the respected New Straits Times newspaper in Kuala Lumpur has asked readers to make up their own minds about the photos.
Villagers who claim to have seen the snake say they have given it the name of Nabau, after an ancient sea serpent which can transform itself into the shapes of different animals.
People who have studied the photograph of the shape taken from the air have dismissed suggestions that it's a log.
As one writer asked: 'A log can't be that winding, can it?' Others have suggested it's a speedboat, but this has been dismissed because of the twisting wake.
The most common accusation is that the photo has simply been manipulated on a computer, while others complain that the river is a different colour to the real Baleh rover which is a murky brown.
But villagers who insist the snake exists say that photos of the creature being taken in different parts of the river prove it is swimming about.
Earlier this month scientists unearthed the fossil of a killer snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow.
The 45ft long monster - named Titanoboa - was so big that it lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles, squeezing them to death and devouring them whole.
Weighing an impressive 1.25 tons, it slithered around the tropical forests of South America 60million years ago, just five million years after the last dinosaurs were wiped out.
Partial skeletons of the boa constrictor-like prehistoric killer were found in a Colombian coal mine by an international team of fossil hunters.
馬來西亞出現超長巨蛇！日前有一名河流測量員在馬來西亞婆羅洲拍到一條長達100英尺(約30多公尺)的巨蛇，照片一經公布後，立刻引發當地居民熱烈討論，不過也有居民對照片提出質疑。
據英國《每日郵報》報導，這條出現在巴勒河(Baleh)中的巨蛇被稱作納巴(Nabau)，身長約100英尺、且有7個鼻孔的龍頭。當地媒體將照片刊出後，已造成多數居民的恐慌，但有居民則猜測照片可能是由照片編輯軟體合成的。
當地民眾對拍攝到的照片眾說紛紜，有居民說是木頭，也有居民說是快艇，但這些說法很快地就被推翻，最普遍的說法就是這些照片是電腦特效加工合成的，不過仍有居民堅稱看到巨蛇出沒。
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