Remember the colossal snake from the 1997 cult classic film Anaconda? Many were frightened, some laughed, but at least we knew that such a thing couldn’t exist in real life. Or can it? The emerald ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, scientists have identified a massive new species of anaconda that may be the largest snake ever documented. The find took place during the filming of Pole to Pole, ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of the green anaconda, the largest and heaviest snake species on Earth. The surprise finding has upended scientific understanding of the green ...

From a giant venomous centipede to a tiny but horrendous worm - here are some of the Amazon's most deadly animals ...