Meet Medusa, the largest snake in the world. Plus, boas the length of school buses, quarter-ton anacondas, and a 12-foot pit viper named Silent Death.

Also known as water boas, green anacondas were called matatoros (meaning “bull killers”) by early Spanish explorers because of their ability to kill and eat such large prey. Its size, stealth, and ...

There is no official record for the biggest green anaconda, but in 2016 construction workers in Brazil came across a snake estimated to be 33 feet (10 m) long and 880 pounds (399 kg).

With over 3,000 species of snakes on the Earth, these scaly reptiles can reach mere inches to tens of feet in size.According to Britannica, the smallest identified snake in the world is the ...

With exquisitely patterned bodies, predatory strikes that accelerate faster than a fighter jet, and even a capacity for "flight," snakes are a fascinating group of reptiles. Some deserve attention ...

Most obviously, a 134-foot-long snake is more than four times longer than the world's largest snake, the Green Anaconda, which (according to National Geographic) can reach a length of about 30 feet.

The biggest venomous snake Venomous snakes tend to be smaller in size as they don't have to rely on suffocating their pray. Alexander said the king cobra is one of the world's largest venomous ...

Titanoboa: Monster Snake follows the scientific sleuths back to the mine, into the labs, and on an expedition to understand modern giant constrictors. It creates a picture of the then largest predator ...

This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology received a ‘hiss-toric’ delivery: approximately 30,000 jarred snake specimens from Oregon State University for research purposes.The new ...