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

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

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

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

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of the green anaconda, the largest and heaviest snake species on Earth. The surprise finding has upended scientific understanding of the green ...

A University of Cambridge-led team has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum ...