Scientists confirm a record-breaking green anaconda in the Amazon, revealing new species clues, surprising sizes, invasive ...

Quick Take Reaching a size 5 times larger than males is a biological benchmark for breeding females. Holding breath for 10 minutes underwater dictates the specific aquatic reach of the green anaconda.

You probably know that the king cobra is the largest venomous snake known to humans, but what if this isn’t entirely true? It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not ...

Will Smith recently appeared on The Tonight Show to promote his new National Geographic adventure series, Pole to Pole with ...

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 ...

It is thought that this giant snake lived in the ancient seas during the Eocene epoch, about 56 to 34 million years ago.

Did you know that Massachusetts only has two venomous snakes species? Out of the 14 snake species that live in Massachusetts, only two of them are actually venomous: the timber rattlesnake and the ...

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.

There are no venomous snakes that call Rhode Island home, but the bad news for people with ophidiophobia is there are snakes in Rhode Island that can grow to 8 feet long. There are 12 snakes native to ...