A striking new species of wolf snake has been uncovered in the forests of Great Nicobar, the southernmost of the Nicobar Islands – an archipelago found off the northern tip of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The glossy black snake reaches about a metre in length and is harmless to humans. It feeds on reptiles, […]
Tag: Black Snake
Snakes, sheilas and a backblocks shed: learning how to wrangle Australia’s most venomous reptiles
In the backblocks of the Lockyer Valley, more than an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, is a dead end track thick with scrubby eucalypt regrowth. It is a Saturday morning in late spring and, in this quiet neck of an area which bills itself as Australia‘s salad bowl, a car turns down the no through […]
The number of venomous snakes removed from this Australian yard will make you shudder
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard. David Stein called Reptile Relocation Sydney last week after watching around six snakes slither into the mulch. He learned from an internet search that pregnant, known […]
Snake Bites Texas Woman Sitting on Toilet in Dark: ‘Very Scary’
In something straight out of a horror movie, a Texas woman had a very unexpected fright when she went to the toilet in the middle of the night. The woman, named Maria Jaimes from Cedar Creek, Texas, sat down on the toilet in the pitch black, only to find a snake lurking in her toilet. […]
Snakes in the city: Ten years of wildlife rescues reveal insights into human-reptile interactions
A new analysis of a decade-long collection of wildlife rescue records in NSW has delivered new insights into how humans and reptiles interact in urban environments. Researchers from Macquarie University worked with scientists from Charles Darwin University, and the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to analyze over 37,000 records of […]
Spotted Black Snake Discovered Chilling in Queensland Toilet
Ah, Australia, the land of adorable fuzzy creatures like koalas and quokkas, but also of terrifying (but important) creatures like crocodiles and spiders the size of your hand. Recently, one Queensland resident had an unexpected run-in with a scaly local. After entering a public toilet, the person was shocked to discover that a spotted black […]