Can a snake truly be longer than a school bus? Vasuki indicus is a ginormous prehistoric snake that broke every assumption ...
Snakes come in all shapes and sizes, but one species found deep in the Amazon can grow to truly gargantuan proportions.
Named after the mythical serpent Vasuki from Hindu mythology, it belonged to the now-extinct Madtsoiidae family, a group of ...
Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide ...
She has been working in journalism for seven years. conservancy A group of snake hunters recently captured the longest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida. The record-setting snake — which ...
There was also the man-sized bulge in the snake’s body. What follows isn’t a strict rundown of the largest snakes ever recorded, as that would mostly involve pythons of slightly different lengths.
Scientists discovered a new species of anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. The northern green anaconda is the largest ever ...
This giant snake grew up to 15 meters (49 feet) long, making it one of the longest ever found. Its fossils were discovered in 2004, but scientists identified it as a new species only in 2024. It was ...
At almost twice the length of a London bus, this python can justly lay claim to being the world's longest snake. It measures just short of 50ft and weighs an astonishing 70 stone - also a record.
Let’s find out. Titanoboa is considered to be the world’s largest snake to ever live on Earth. It was estimated to be 45–50 feet long, 3 feet wide, and weighed over a tonne. This means it ...
Titanoboa is considered one of the largest known snakes to have ever existed. Although this snake is no longer present today as it went extinct about 60 million years ago. It measured 13 meters ...