Before this discovery, the Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) was considered the world’s largest snake, but the Northern Green Anaconda surpasses it in size and mass. For comparison: These Amazonian ...

When it comes to the world of predators, snakes hold a particularly fascinating spot. These slithering hunters have evolved various techniques and strategies that make them some of the most efficient ...

On April 9, 2025, a 55-year-old woman named Wa Siti was reported missing after she went out to pick vegetables in her garden on Buton Island, part of Southeast Sulawesi. When her son arrived at the ...

Pythons, particularly the reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus), are native to Southeast Asia and are the longest snakes in the world, often exceeding 20 feet in length. The Natural ...

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) holds the undisputed title of the world ... While the green anaconda holds the title for heaviest snake, the reticulated python (Python reticulatus) presents a ...

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, United States The dorsal raphe nucleus is a critical node for affective and motivated circuits in the ...

If you’ve seen videos on the Internet advertising footage of insanely large animal specimens, then what you’re seeing is likely an example of indeterminate growth left to its own devices.

In this group, there are a whopping 49 species of boid snakes spanning 12 different genera. One of these genera, the genus Eunectes, contains all known anaconda species, of which there are currently ...

Since the 1970's or earlier, cannabinoids have been found to have anti-epileptic effects in animal seizure models (1). These anti-epileptic findings also show that the effects of cannabinoids were ...