Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

A giant reticulated python named Ibu Baron has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the longest wild snake ever ...

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 ...

King Cobra was considered the largest venomous snake to have ever roamed the face of the Earth. Due to its enormous length, the King Cobra was a force.

Whether they make an appearance on the silver screen or on the news, anacondas are famously dangerous reptiles. They’re excessively long, thick snakes with eyes situated on the top of their heads to ...

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 ...

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 ...