The mighty Mississippi River teems with wildlife as it rolls 2,350 miles from Minnesota to Louisiana. Abundant fish like ...

The newly named northern green anaconda or Eunectes akayima is reportedly the largest in the world, capable of exceeding ...

The vessel, American West, is wintering in Lewiston, bookending a tourist season where the region was host to a ...

Since American snowboarding superstar Chloe Kim won her second Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, she’s kept up ...

A mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced the head of Ukraine’s security service Monday, continuing a top-level reshuffle ahead of a trip to Paris where he hoped to finalize ...

A massive 20-pound rattlesnake is used to test a newly designed snake hook under real conditions. The encounter highlights how extreme size and strength can change standard handling dynamics. Viewers ...

A large alligator was filmed dragging a massive Burmese python in Florida's Everglades National Park. The alligator was estimated to be 10 to 12 feet long, while the python appeared to be nearly twice ...

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 ...

Evidence suggests pythons may be evolving to tolerate colder climates farther north. These invasive snakes are primarily established in South Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee. As sections of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...