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A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
Green anacondas in the wild live for about 10 years. In captivity, they can live 30 years or more. The 2023 Guinness Book of World Records for the oldest living snake in captivity is a green anaconda aged 37 years 317 days, verified on 14 May 2021 by Paul Swires, at Montecasino Bird & Reptile Park in Johannesburg , South Africa.
Nevertheless, threat from anacondas is a familiar trope in comics, movies, and adventure stories (often published in pulp magazines or adventure magazines) set in the Amazon jungle. Local communities and some European explorers have given accounts of giant anacondas, legendary snakes of much greater proportion than any confirmed specimen.
The new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
Oh i have two things to say One, the snake in the video is far short of being 6 meters or 7 meters it is more like 4 or 5 and second I made a mistake a 20 foot anaconda is a big deal compared to a python of the same length since the anaconda would be 'much' bulkier so my mistake but that snake in the vid is way to thin and short to be 20 feet.
Giant Snapping Turtle 1898–1948 Lake Erie Ohio USA: North America: Bessie, South Bay Bessie Snake-like and 30 to 40 ft (9-12 m) long, at least a foot (30 cm) in diameter, with a grayish color. [4] Black River New York USA: North America: Black River Monster Dark-colored serpentine body with flippers and large bulging eyes [5] 1951– Lake Dillon
By RYAN GORMAN 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 ...