New Giant Anaconda Discovered in Amazon Rainforest

A new type of giant anaconda with a head the size of a human has been discovered by a team of scientists embedded with a television crew filming a new show featuring a Hollywood superstar in a remote part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Professor Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland was part of a team that was invited to the Bameno region of Baihuaeri Waorani Territory by the area’s indigenous people to study and collect specimens of a population of anaconda that are believed to be among the world’s biggest. The now-named Northern Green Anaconda (Eunectes akayima) was discovered by the scientific team during filming with National Geographic for their upcoming series starring the U.S. actor Will Smith....