Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead ...

Remember the colossal snake from the 1997 cult classic film Anaconda? Many were frightened, some laughed, but at least we ...

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history. Courtesy ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

The Brazos water snake, Nerodia harteri, is endemic to a single location in the United States. It thrives in the Brazos River basin of Texas, where there is an abundance of food, camouflage, and ...

From copperheads and water moccasins to pigmy rattlesnakes, Georgia is home to 47 different species of snakes. Some can grow as long or longer than a full-sized man. But here's what to know about the ...