Picture an animal that huddles up with others when stressed, babysits its young, hangs out around relatives, and gathers in big groups every year. Did you imagine a rattlesnake? For a long time, ...

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A popular Queensland snake catcher has shared the “freak” moment she was bitten by an eastern brown snake in her Sunshine Coast backyard. Mikayla, who works for Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, was ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

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A brother and sister skipping hand-in-hand down a dirt road in Australia where oblivious to the deadly snake lying in their path, and so was their mother following behind them. The boy eventually ...

Crikey, a new species of wolf snake has been discovered in India and named after the late Steve Irwin. Researchers decided to call the glossy black snake "Irwin's wolf snake," or "Lycodon irwini," in ...

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Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The sound of your shuffling footfalls fills the quiet. Suddenly, you stop.

Some folks may say one good thing about the cold weather is no copperheads. That’s right, across much of South Carolina copperheads and other snakes have entered what’s called brumation. It’s when ...

An antivenom using antibodies from a llama and an alpaca can neutralize venom from some of the world’s most venomous snakes, according to a study published today in Nature 1. When administered to mice ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...