Largest Green Anaconda Discovered in the Amazon Rainforest

The researchers report that there is a 5.5 percent “genetically distinct” difference between northern and southern Green Anaconda.

Largest Green Anaconda Species Discovered in Amazon Rainforest Fox News reports that the anaconda snake has been split into two different species after experts found that the green anaconda, which is mostly found in the Amazon rainforest of South America. Found in the area, it is the tallest and largest species of snake, growing to about 26 feet in length.

Earlier, experts believed that there was only one species of large snake. But scientists have now divided the snake into two different species, the northern and southern green anacondas.

A study published in the journal MDPI Diversity used genetic data from four recognized species of anaconda in nine countries.

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Researchers have discovered that there is a 5.5 percent “genetically distinct” difference between northern and southern green anacondas. Humans and chimpanzees, by contrast, differ by only 2 percent.

The discovery was made by researchers using tissue and blood samples from green anacondas in Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

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According to study co-author Brian Fry, a National Geographic explorer and biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia, the differences in species are caused by geographic changes. The Amazon consists of two distinct basins: the large southern Amazon basin and the “much smaller” northern Orinoco basin.

Brian Fry further explained that “the southern green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, is found in a wide range spanning Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and parts of French Guiana; in contrast, our newly described northern green The anaconda, Eunectes akaima, is confined to Colombia, Ecuador. Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela, and parts of French Guiana.”