New Amazonian species has been crowned world's biggest snake. The emerald wonder of the Amazon rainforest just yielded a ...

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

Snakes come in all sizes today, from tiny thread snakes no longer than a pencil to green anacondas that rival small cars in ...

Anacondas are among the largest snakes on Earth. But when did their development into these massive sizes actually begin? A ...

While other species downsized and died out across millennia the anaconda remains an Amazon giant. The Green Anaconda is the ...

Analysis of fossils from South America shows that the tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago.

Anacondas reached their massive form around 12.4 million years ago and have stayed the same since. A research team, led by ...

A University of Cambridge-led team has analyzed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh has kicked off a 10-day tour of South and Central America, where she came face-to-face with the ...

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it’s a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story. By Ana Ionova ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...