The bones of the Cerrejón snake suggested it was closely related to boas, but the Cerrejón environment offered a lifestyle more like that of the modern South American anaconda, a water dweller ...

The opening sentence of the entry for anaconda in Hobson-Jobson sets the tone of any inquiry into the word’s history. “This word is of very obscure origin,” the compilers caution readers. Originally, ...

Although the snake went extinct many years ago, it used to be longer than the Anaconda. Titanoboa cerrejonensis once crawled ...