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It is possible that the land hith still exists on Gor, doubtless in remote areas, but it seems more likely that that form of hith is extinct. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 18, Sentence #78)

Putting together what we think we know of the hith, from stories, legend, and evidence, it was an immense, constricting serpent, over a hundred feet in length with a girth the diameter of which would have been something like eight to ten feet. It seems to have ranged widely on the continent, from the latitudes of the Voltai to the jungles of the Ua. As it was not herbivorous, one supposes it preyed on animals as small as the tabuk and as large as tharlarion, even carnivorous tharlarion, the encounters with which must have produced epic battles. It is possible that the land hith still exists on Gor, doubtless in remote areas, but it seems more likely that that form of hith is extinct. The tiny, elusive, venomous ost survives while, it seems, the enormous hith perishes. The pebble is unnoticed; the mountain announces itself to the sky. Interestingly, it seems likely, as such things have often occurred, that large animals, megafauna, are commonly brought to extinction by a smaller, seemingly unlikely foe. - (Avengers of Gor)