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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study of anaconda fossils shows that these snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and then stopped growing. As ...

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 ...

Green anacondas easily reach 20 feet long, and sometimes even longer. At roughly the length of a small school bus, anacondas are famously some of the world’s largest snakes. Now fossil evidence proves ...

Jack Black, Paul Rudd battle a giant snake in new 'Anaconda' Jack Black and Paul Rudd play best buds who venture to the Amazon to remake their favorite movie and are hunted by a giant snake in ...

In Anaconda, Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favourite movie: the cinematic "classic" Anaconda.

Anacondas have been giants of the animal world for over 12 million years, reveals new research. Analysis of fossils from South America shows that the tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 ...

The team measured 183 fossilised anaconda backbones, representing at least 32 snakes, discovered in Falcón State in Venezuela, South America. A University of Cambridge-led team has analysed giant ...