{"id":183436,"date":"2024-02-23T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gigantic-new-anaconda-species-discovered-in-amazon-rainforest"},"modified":"2024-02-23T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:23:57","slug":"gigantic-new-anaconda-species-discovered-in-amazon-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gigantic-new-anaconda-species-discovered-in-amazon-rainforest","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic new anaconda species discovered in Amazon rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gigantic-new-anaconda-species-discovered-in-amazon-rainforest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to search for the previously undocumented northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), following an invitation from the Waorani people to observe anacondas \u201crumoured to be the largest in existence,\u201d according to the scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The team joined the hunters on a 10-day expedition to the Bameno region of Baihuaeri Waorani Territory, before paddling down the river system to \u201cfind several anacondas lurking in the shallows, lying in wait for prey,\u201d Professor Bryan Fry, a biologist from the University of Queensland, who led the team, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to search for the previously undocumented northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), following an invitation from the Waorani people to observe anacondas \u201crumoured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}