Snakes come in all shapes and sizes, but one species found deep in the Amazon can grow to truly gargantuan proportions.

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture’s Plant Quarantine Branch was notified by the state land department that a live yellow-bellied sea snake had been found pinned under a log at Honolii Beach.

The reaction shows our views of the deep sea—long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters—may at last be changing. Anglerfish are much smaller than you probably think they are. The specimen Boguñá ...