Scientists confirm a record-breaking green anaconda in the Amazon, revealing new species clues, surprising sizes, invasive risks, and unanswered questions about even larger snakes still hidden within ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead stumbled onto a scientific milestone: a colossal anaconda that may be the ...

Quick Take Reaching a size 5 times larger than males is a biological benchmark for breeding females. Holding breath for 10 minutes underwater dictates the specific aquatic reach of the green anaconda.

Remember the colossal snake from the 1997 cult classic film Anaconda? Many were frightened, some laughed, but at least we knew that such a thing couldn’t exist in real life. Or can it? The emerald ...