Published on Feb. 29, 2024, 9:14 PM
This formidable snake is at risk
A brand new species of inexperienced anaconda, also called the enormous anaconda, was found within the Brazilian Amazon in 2023, researchers just lately introduced.
It’s rumoured to be among the many largest on the planet.
One feminine anaconda encountered in the course of the research was 6.3 meters lengthy, and the workforce heard of anecdotal studies of specimens measuring 7.5 meters and weighing 500 kilograms within the area.
The analysis for the brand new paper concerning the discovery, led by Professor Bryan Fry from The University of Queensland, was compiled throughout an expedition that ventured right into a distant a part of the Ecuadoran Amazonian forest, referred to as the Bameno area of Baihuaeri Waorani Territory. It’s there that they uncovered the northern inexperienced anaconda (Eunectes akayima), now identified to be separate from the previously-documented southern inexperienced.
“Our team received a rare invitation from the Waorani people to explore the region and collect samples from a population of anacondas, rumored to be the largest in existence,” Professor Fry mentioned in a press release.
“The Indigenous hunters took us into the jungle on a 10-day expedition to search for these snakes, which they consider sacred.”
