Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead ...

Remember the colossal snake from the 1997 cult classic film Anaconda? Many were frightened, some laughed, but at least we ...

A new study of ancient fossils found that millions of years ago these creatures grew to more than a whopping 5 metres in ...

A new study has revealed South America’s wetlands have been home to 5.2m-long anacondas for more than 12 million ...

Snakes have always fascinated humans by their mysterious behaviour, habitats, size and strength. Here are the top 10 longest ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

Giant anaconda bones discovered in Venezuela date back 12.4 million years, offering rare insight into the evolution of these massive snakes.

Credit: gmdcltd The snake’s fossil remains were first discovered in 2005 at the Panandhro Lignite Mine in Gujarat, India. Workers weren’t hunting for bones, but they were mining coal. What they found ...

A University of Cambridge-led team has analyzed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical ...

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...