While enjoying a sunrise stroll on the beach, you expect to see birds, clams, and maybe a crab or two – not a massive venomous sea snake suffering from a life-threatening injury. This, however, is the exact sight beachgoers found themselves confronted with while walking Australia’s Sunshine Beach on Monday morning. Concerned for the clearly […]
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Woman Sleeps With Snake Every Night, Until Doctor Shows Her What’s Inside
As one of the vets performed an ultrasound on the python, his face betrayed his concern to the others gathered around. She wondered what they were seeing that made their foreheads crease into frowns. He began worrying for her precious baby. Mel had always been labeled as odd. Hey, if she wanted to tattoo most […]
The longest Burmese python ever measured was caught in Florida this week: ‘It was insane’
FORT MYERS, Fla. − Hunters in South Florida caught the largestBurmese python ever measured, and the lengthy beast is being examined at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples. The 19-foot python was caught in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County early Monday morning by Naples hunter and Ohio State University student […]
Monster Snake on Roof of House After Escaping Dubbed ‘Stuff of Nightmares’
An enormous snake was found slithering across the roof of the Wisconsin house where it was kept as a pet, creating such a scare on Wednesday that deputies were called. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department shared pictures of the reptile on its Facebook page, showing just how large the reptile was in comparison to one […]
Shock as Louisiana Man Finds Deadly Snake Curled Inside His Shoe
How often do you check your shoes for snakes before you put them on? The answer is probably not often enough. Jeffrey Tucker, from Baton Rouge in Louisiana, can attest to this first hand, after almost stepping on a venomous cottonmouth curled up in his crocs on May 11. “My shoes were on the back […]
Flip-flop warning after woman was bitten by an adder in country park and left in ‘excruciating pain’ while recovering in hospital
A woman has warned others not to wear flip-flops in while out and about in the countryside after she was bitten by an adder while walking her dogs. Tracey Evans is still in hospital after she was bitten on big toe by the UK’s only venomous snake in Alver Valley Country Park in Gosport on […]
How to Deal with Venomous Snake Encounters
For many people, a close encounter with a snake, venomous or not, is amongst the most terrifying experiences imaginable. It’s no matter that only 20% of snake species—one in five—are venomous. Of those, only about a 1/3 of the venomous snake species have the potency to cause serious injury or fatality to a human. That […]
Three huge Boa Constrictors found dead at Scots loch next to rubbish bags
Three huge snakes have been found dead at a Scots loch next to a number of bags of rubbish. The horror discovery was made by a member of public near Carbeth Loch in Blanefield, Stirlingshire, on January 8. The Boa Constrictors – normally frequented in tropical South America – were found dumped among the litter […]