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The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant anaconda, emerald anaconda, common anaconda, common water boa, or southern green anaconda, is a semi-aquatic boa species found in South America and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is the largest, heaviest, and second longest snake in the world, after the reticulated python.
The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. [7] Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson.
The female anaconda appears and kills a crocodile, and a crocodile flings the male anaconda into a helicopter containing Sarah's extraction team, causing it to crash. The female anaconda kills the crocodile and eats Beach alive, who sacrifices his life by detonating a grenade and killing the anaconda that swallowed him, devastating Sarah's ...
"One female anaconda we encountered measured an astounding 6.3 meters (20.8 feet) long." ... Flagg's big 2nd half helps No. 2 Duke hold off NC State 74-64 to stay unbeaten in ACC.
“The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible – one female anaconda we encountered measured an astounding 6.3 metres long,” study co-author Bryan Fry from the University of ...
Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, ... one female anaconda we encountered measured an astounding 6.3 metres (20.7 feet) long,” Fry said of the ...
Often in snake species, females will copulate with multiple males in one mating aggregation. [6] [37] To increase his chances in paternity, a male will sometimes try to inhibit the female from re-mating. A common tactic in many species is to obstruct the reproductive pathway of the female in order to physically prevent additional copulations.
A man has agreed to be eaten alive by an anaconda for a television show. Paul Rosolie will sidle up to the hulking Amazon beast covered in pig's blood for a Discovery Channel reality show set to ...