Van Lierde estimated that the beast’s head was two feet wide; enough to comfortably make lunch out of current snake heavyweights. The anaconda, the most voluminous of all serpents, can have a mid-body ...

In 1959, Colonel Remy Van Lierde of the Belgian Royal Air Force was on helicopter patrol. He had flown in over 400 missions, his eyes trained to spot friend and foe below. That skillset that would ...

Another engraving portrays a 98-foot-long (30 m) horned snake. The engravings appear to date to pre-Columbian (before 1492) and colonial times (1492 to the 19th century), ...

A photo of ‘100-foot monster snake’ that has surfaced on the Internet and is certainly fake has stirred up a lot of interest in recent days, reports the Telegraph Online.

In 2023, a video boasting a similar claim about a 50-foot snake living in the Congo went viral on social media and was debunked by Reuters. The Associated Press contributed reporting.