New Giant Anaconda Discovered in Amazon Rainforest

“Our team received a rare invitation to explore the region. (We) were lucky enough to find several anacondas lurking in the shallows, lying in wait for prey.”
New Giant Anaconda Discovered in Amazon Rainforest
Aerial view showing a boat speeding on the Jurura river in the municipality of Carauari, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest, on March 15, 2020. Florence Goisnard/AFP via Getty Images
Jim Birchall
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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.

Jim Birchall
Jim Birchall
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Jim Birchall has written and edited for several regional New Zealand publications. He was most recently the editor of the Hauraki Coromandel Post.
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