Analysis of ancient fossils has shown that giant anacondas became extremely large over 12 million years ago and remain giants ...

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 stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

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

Anacondas reached their enormous size about 12.4 million years ago and, unlike most other Miocene giants, have barely changed ...

Giant anaconda bones discovered in Venezuela date back 12.4 million years, offering rare insight into the evolution of these massive snakes.

A fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton excavated from Angola’s costal cliffs. Credit Hillsman S. Jackson, Southern Methodist University. The story of prehistoric ocean life that emerged in the ...