A workforce of researchers within the Amazon rainforest have found a brand new species of snake—the Northern Green Anaconda—that slithers round Venezuela, Suriname, and Guyana. Below, astonishing video of TV presenter Freek Vonk swimming with one which’s 26 toes lengthy and weighs roughly 550 kilos.
According to the Independent, the species is “the most important and heaviest snake but recognized on this planet.”
“Beyond its educational significance, this research has important implications for the conservation of those iconic reptile species, highlighting our lack of know-how concerning the variety of the South American fauna and the necessity for revised methods to preserve the newly recognized and reclassified species,” the researchers write within the scientific journal Diversity.
(through Daily Grail)