(Reuters) - Researchers in the Amazon have discovered the world's largest snake species - an enormous green anaconda - in Ecuador's rainforest that split off from its closest relatives 10 million ...

A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that ...

The green anaconda, an aquatic snake often found in South America's Amazon region, is the largest of its kind — measuring nearly 21 feet in length, according to experts. Now, the snake behemoth has ...

The green anaconda, an aquatic snake often found in South America's Amazon region, is the largest of its kind — measuring nearly 21 feet in length, according to experts. Now, the snake behemoth has ...

The new "northern green anaconda" belongs to a different, new species, Eunectes akiyama A zookeeper displays five-day-old Green Anacondas at the National Zoological Gardens in Colombo July 16, 2008.

It was thought that there was only one species of green anaconda in the wild, the Eunectes murinus, but the scientific journal 'Diversity' reveals that the new 'northern green anaconda' belongs to a ...