Snake Bites Suck. Mamba Bites Are Worse.
Getting bitten by a mamba snake probably sucks. But, according to a team of researchers, mamba venom doesn’t attack you once; it strikes you twice. The second attack is currently ...
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Texas high school teacher shamelessly tells students she fed ‘ailing’ kitten to class snake
A Texas high school teacher is under fire for telling her students that she fed one of their classroom snakes an “ailing” kitten before school in early September. The woman ...
Burmese Python Caught on Video Puking Up an Entire Deer
Florida has a long history of snake horror stories, but this one might be the most surreal yet. In Big Cypress National Preserve, biologists watched a massive Burmese python regurgitate ...
Boy, 4, bitten by snake at day care as family learns staff never called 911: reports
A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was bitten by a copperhead snake at a North Carolina day care playground — with the child’s family later learning that the facility ...
Firefighters capture slithering Burmese python from Miami home in shocking video
Miami-Dade firefighters discovered a Burmese python slithering through a shed outside a Miami-area home, and its capture was caught on video. Video released by the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue department showed ...
Tennessee Hiker killed by venomous snake bite in state park after picking up the deadly reptile
A hiker was killed from a rare but venomous rattlesnake bite after he made the mistake of picking up the reptile. The unidentified male hiker, who was in Tennessee’s Savage ...
Florida man catches 87 invasive pythons in a month, awarded $1K through state incentive system
A Florida man with near-unmatched gumption for slaying snakes was awarded $1,000 through a new state incentive system for capturing a staggering 87 invasive pythons in just one month. Aaron ...
Wild moment reptile wrangler casually captures 20-foot python from Los Angeles dumpster
Wild video shows a brave reptile wrangler calmly climbing into a dumpster in just jeans and a T-shirt to capture a 20-foot python with his bare hands. Joseph Hart was ...
World’s Smallest Snake Found Again After Disappearing for Decades
A snake the size of a gummy worm has made a surprise comeback in the forests of Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to be completely off the ...
Florida deploys furry robot rabbits to fight invasive Burmese python overpopulation
Night of the Robbits! A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons that have ...
