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

A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that ...

The Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake on Earth today. For decades, many paleontologists suspected that the snake started ...

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

Scientists from the University of Queensland observed a northern green anaconda that weighed over 1,100 pounds while filming 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' in Ecuador Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...

Snakes live just about everywhere. From black rat snakes in the garden to rattlers out West, they're simply a part of many healthy ecosystems. It's the venomous snakes and the giant, bone-crushing ...

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

The green anaconda, an aquatic snake often found in South America's Amazon region, is the largest of its kind — measuring nearly 21 feet in length, according to experts. Now, the snake behemoth has ...

It turns out the world's heaviest snake isn't quite what it seems. During the filming of an upcoming National Geographic series, it was discovered that the green anaconda is actually two genetically ...

Professor Bryan G. Fry is a National Geographic Explorer and has previously received funding as part of this role. The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon’s most formidable and ...