The newly named northern green anaconda or Eunectes akayima is reportedly the largest in the world, capable of exceeding lengths of 20 feet — with anecdotal reports of serpents measuring 25 feet long.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

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 ...

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The new study establishes that the Mizoram population represents a distinct evolutionary lineage unique to the state, he said ...

DALLAS — Texas is home to more than 100 snake species, including the western diamondback rattlesnake, which was recently ...