Many of us know snakes are ectothermic reptiles that regulate their body temperature behaviorally by using shade, burrows, warm rocks, and even metabolic heat from digestion. But not everyone is aware ...

Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and wildlife. The New England Aquarium has two surprising new residents: a pair of ...

When it comes to making babies, it usually takes two to tango. But Anna, a 10-foot-long (3 meters) anaconda at Boston's New England Aquarium, did it solo. Earlier this year, Anna gave birth to 18 ...

Snakes are often associated with egg-laying because it is a correct assumption. However, this fact cannot fully describe snakes' biology. There are various forms of snakes' reproduction. In particular ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Animal caretakers at the New England Aquarium were in for quite the surprise this past Winter after discovering that an eight-year-old female anaconda named Anna from their Amazon rainforest exhibit ...

Anna the anaconda gave birth to a litter of baby snakes at the New England Aquarium in January—while she was completely isolated from any male snakes. The aquarium’s biologists said the birth had to ...

An 8-year-old anaconda housed at the New England Aquarium in Boston gave birth this January, but these are no ordinary babies. The mother lives in an exhibit with only adult female snakes — making the ...

Staffers at the New England Aquarium last winter were setting up for an after-hours event near the Amazon rain forest exhibit when they made an unexpected discovery. Anna the anaconda — 30 pounds, 8 ...

The New England Aquarium has two surprising new residents: a pair of baby green anacondas. It isn't the species that makes this birth unusual, it's the setting. The little snakes were born to a mom ...