Anacondas come from an era when many fellow reptiles and amphibians were equally gigantic. They all shrank or disappeared, ...

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles ...

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

Anacondas have remained apex predators for over 12 million years and aren’t considered endangered, but that doesn’t mean they ...

Anacondas have been giants for more than 12 million years, a University of Cambridge-led team has discovered, after ...

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

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 ...

Analysis of fossils from South America shows that the tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago.

The upper Miocene Castaic Formation contains a megafauna of about 100 species, most of which are pelecypods and gastropods. Minor elements of the fauna are scaphopods, brachiopods, echinoderms, ...

Samples of diatomaceous sedimentary rock from the Oregon continental shelf appear to have come from a definable stratigraphic unit. This unit may be, in part, a correlative of the Pullen Formation of ...

Salamander Energy PLC said its Angklung-1 exploratory well off East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is a commercial gas discovery in Lower Pliocene sandstone and also discovered an Upper Miocene oil play.