The coral snake - which belongs to a class of potentially-deadly snakes - bit the security guard on the toe while working at a nursery school in Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil ...

MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — A local gas station was robbed by snake wielding thieves.

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin discuss with Kannan Raja, President, Herpetological Society of Singapore, if more large snakes are being spotted in Singapore's neighbourhoods.

The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

Florence City Council members passed the second and final reading Monday involving changes to the city's existing dangerous ...

Burmese pythons in Florida are the ultimate invasive swamp monster and have consumed a significant percentage of south ...

Stokes’s sea snake is one of the largest sea snakes in the world. ©Day & Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen / This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas ...

“The most challenging thing is with the large snakes, like the mambas and cobras, because they’re very, very quick,” he says. Black mambas are one of the world’s deadliest snakes, because ...

even venomous snakes like pit vipers and kraits. Their capacity to swallow large snakes is facilitated by their distinctive size and strength, also aiding in defeating venomous prey. Spitting ...

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Snakes smell by flicking their forked tongues ... Some species mate individually while others engage in "mating balls", where large numbers of individuals come together to mate at the same time.

Or maybe it’s a large one stretched out on a rock or taking a swim in the water of a nearby creek. Chances are when you see a snake the first thing you wonder is what kind it is. The second thing: Is ...