The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles ...

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

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has ...

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...

A new fossil study reveals that giant anacondas achieved their immense size around 12.4 million years ago, a dimension they ...

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

Learn how anacondas are defying expectations of reptile experts by keeping their ancient body size despite drastic ...

A new study of ancient fossils found that millions of years ago these creatures grew to more than a whopping 5 metres in ...

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

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

Phylogenetic affinities of the late Miocene echimyid †Pampamys emmonsae Verzi, Vucetich, and Montalvo, 1995 (Huayquerían South American Land Mammal Age, central Argentina), were analyzed. In the ...

The alternating mountain ranges and desert basins of the Great Basin in the western United States support higher species diversity of mammals than any other region of comparable area in temperate ...