Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

Ancient millipedes once reached sizes far beyond anything alive today. Newly analyzed fossils show that some species grew ...

Fossils reveal that anacondas evolved their impressive size early in their history and maintained it for more than 12 million years.

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...

New research reveals ancient anacondas were as big as today's giants. Fossils from Venezuela show these snakes reached 5.2 ...

Anacondas reached their enormous size about 12.4 million years ago and, unlike most other Miocene giants, have barely changed ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

A University of Cambridge-led team has analyzed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical ...

Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth's largest trees, officials said ...