A beautiful but venomous Egyptian cobra is back in the Bronx Zoo. In case you missed it, she went missing from the zoo several weeks ago. The magnificent reptile was found a week ago in a dark corner of the reptile house. I guess she just wanted a little privacy. Can’t blame her for that.
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Humongous pythons have invaded South Florida and the race is on to capture them. Many snake experts have been recruited to the front lines of Florida’s war on pythons. Eradication is a government priority. Special licenses have been issued to python assassins. Bounties have even been debated. Scientists have implanted transponders inside female snakes in […]
Ancient snakes used to feed on dinosaur eggs. And the proof is in the fossils. Fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg provides insight into the snake’s habits as well as evolution. The snake was an estimated 11 1/2 feet long. Amazingly, the snake’s remains were nearly complete and […]
This is not good news for all of us snake lovers, especially those who like Burmese Pythons and Boa Constrictors.
Federal officials would like to prevent nine types of constrictor snakes from entering the USA, stating they fit in with invasive types which present the one largest danger to the country’s ecosystem. This would be the […]
Firefighters in St. George, Utah, had much more to deal with in addition to fire flames when they answered a call inside a neighborhood trailer park. Turns out, the flames had been the simple part. The difficult part of their job was rescuing the trailer owner’s nineteen pet pythons from the fire. Apparently the owner had […]
Cambodian polіce confiscated an incredible twο tons of livө snakes and tortoises. Yes, that’s right. Two tons! They arгested two мen trying to smuggle the slithөring cargo υp а rivөr from Cambodia to Vietnam. Acting on a tіp, pοlice intercepted the boаt Wednesday on the Bаssac Rivөr in southeastern Cаmbodia just before it crossed іnto […]