The Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake on Earth today. For decades, many paleontologists suspected that the snake started out smaller and grew over the years. A new Cambridge study says otherwise.
(a) E. deschauenseei caught in Beni, Bolivia (B54). (b,c) Anacondas caught in Beni that had markings of E. deschauenseei but were recovered as E. beniensis in the phylogenetic analysis (B52 and B58). ...