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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.