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Here are some images of the northern green anaconda, indigenous to the Orinoco Basin of the Amazon and "magnificent" in size. 'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ever ...
The green anaconda is the world's heaviest and one of the world's longest snakes, reaching a length of up to 5.21 m (17 ft 1 in) long. [11] More typical mature specimens reportedly can range up to 5 m (16 ft 5 in), with adult females, with a mean length of about 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in), being generally much larger than the males, which average ...
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
Prey of the northern green anaconda include large animals such as capybaras, caimans and deer. It is a keystone species in its ecosystem, whose presence impacts the habits and migration patterns of other species in the surrounding environment. Despite popular beliefs, there have been no confirmed records of E. akayima hunting or eating humans ...
The new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.
Sexual size dimorphism in Eunectes is the opposite of most other vertebrates. Females are larger than males in most snakes, and green anacondas have one of the most extreme size differences, where females average roughly 32 kg (70 lb) and males average only around 7 kg (15 lb).
The prehistoric Australian megalania (Varanus priscus), which may have existed up to 40,000 years ago, is the largest terrestrial lizard known to exist, but the lack of a complete skeleton has resulted in a wide range of size estimates. Molnar's 2004 assessment resulted in an average weight of 320 kg (710 lb) and length of 4.5 m (15 ft), and a ...
Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world.