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One such snake is the green anaconda. And now, a scientist has found what is perhaps the largest individual snake ever discovered, a green anaconda discovered in the Amazon that is as thick as a ...

Two Indian paleontologists stumbled upon a fascinating find while fossil hunting in a coal mine. Initially, they expected to find prehistoric whale fossils, but they discovered 27 vertebrae that ...

Guinness World Records reports the biggest reticulated python ever captured was 32 feet, 9.5 inches, and the longest living in captivity was a 25-foot, 2-inch snake that died in 2011 in Kansas ...