Snakes come in an astonishing range of sizes, from tiny thread snakes to massive constrictors capable of overpowering large prey. But which species truly earn the title of the world’s largest snakes?

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

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 ...

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 ...