What is the biggest snake? This question comes up more than any other regarding snakes. Let’s face it, people are fascinated with size. Add to that the curiosity and the mystery surrounding snakes, and you have the ever persistent question. So the answer to the question is that it depends on whether you are referring […]
Watch this video of a big snake. But be careful, there is a surprise at the end.
Here is a link to the biggest snake eating the world’s largest rodent. The largest snake in terms of length are the pythons, but based on weight it is the anaconda. The anaconda in the video is tipping the scales at more than 550 pounds and wants to supersize his rodent meal.
Please be patient as it takes a minute to […]
Snakes are not only prolific, but useful.
All snakes have certain obvious traits in common such as scales, limbless bodies, and forked tongues.
But they also posses a wide range of characteristics that are unique to each species.
Some give birth to live young (viviparous), while others lay eggs (oviparous).
Some snakes are the size of a pencil, while […]
This story is so fascinating that I thought I’d post it again. A giant python which is nearly 15m long, has been caught in Indonesia. It weighs 447 kg and could slither into the record books if it’s proved to be the largest snake of all types of snakes ever caught.Villagers say they captured the beast […]
By RAHUL ALVARES
People call me a “snake rescuer” and I’ve always considered the term in its literal sense: I rescue snakes from people. Human beings are much bigger, stronger, far more intelligent, armed with opposable thumbs and able to wield weapons like rakes, bats, coconut palms and choppers with ease — enough to smash a legless […]
I saw this recently. This looks pretty accurate, but there is no source to confirm it. These are the top 10 deadliest snakes, based on number of deaths reported.
1. The Cobra Snake
( the cobra snake saves more lives than it takes since it kills man`s biggest enemies RATS which carry deadly diseases (bacteria) with them […]
What is the largest one? This can mean one of two things. If you are referring to the longest snake in the world, then that would be the Reticulated python of Southeast Asia. Retics, as herpetologists often call them, can grow to be about thirty-three feet (although this is very rare). If you are referring to […]
Three things happened this month that brought snakes to mind. The first was St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. The saint is credited with driving the snakes out of Ireland. The fact that snakes never lived on that cold island in no way discourages people from making a connection between St. Patrick and snakes.
The second happening […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Like father, like son? The 4-year-old son of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin wasn’t at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, according to his mother.
“He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his […]