A giant anaconda was spotted crushing a caiman to death, coiling itself around the predator in a 'fatal hug'. The huge snake tightly wraps itself around the caiman as the beast seems to helplessly ...

A prehistoric caiman, which weighed up to three tonnes, had an extra hip bone and upright shoulders to help it carry its weight on land, scientists say. Purussaurus mirandai could grow up to 10m ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...

In reality, the green anaconda rarely exceeds 6.25 metres. The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest venomous snake. In 1937, a 5.54-metre-long king cobra was found in Negeri Sembilan ...

Kneeling in the boat, he was in the perfect position when the cat delivered the skull-crushing bite to the unsuspecting yacare caiman. During Chinese New Year, Xingchao tracked a group of Pallas's ...