The snake’s identity was also confirmed by an anaconda specialist and researcher ... five weeks ago in the Amazon Rainforest in remote Brazil. She was as thick as a car tyre with a human-sized ...

The Brazilian yellow scorpion is the most dangerous scorpion in South America. Scorpions now kill more people in Brazil than snakes do, as the population of the poisonous arachnids grows and spreads.

There is a mysterious island just 20 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil that is so infested with deadly snakes that no one is allowed there other than a few select scientists. Snake Island ...

The handling of these species is regulated by Brazil’s environmental authority ... are accustomed to human contact. No poisonous snakes are used. “I’m always here, just in case (an animal ...