ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan has slithered into the top spot as home to the largest snake collection in the world. Oregon State University recently gifted the UM Museum of Zoology 45,000 specimens of reptiles and amphibians. Over 30,000 of those were snakes, which almost doubled the school’s research collection and put … Read more
Oh, for goodnessssss snake! A family was rattled to find a 5-foot python taking a nap in the kitchen of their South London home last month. The boa-red reptile, which can “kill a human in minutes,” per USA Today, was discovered on Sept. 13 by the family’s nanny, who promptly dialed the Royal Society for … Read more
A man filmed taking his pet snake surfing on the Gold Coast of Australia is under investigation by wildlife authorities as concerns emerge for the reptile’s welfare. Surfer Higor Fiuza went viral this week after footage of him and his pet carpet python surfing at Rainbow Bay was shared online. Earlier this week, Fiuza told … Read more
A mother’s “worst nightmare” was realized this week when she found a massive python curled up in her baby’s bed. Allirra Lovelock made the horrifying discovery on Monday afternoon, spotting the enormous reptile slithering inside her infant daughter’s cot at their Bodalla home on the state’s south coast. “Is anyone good with snakes?” she posted … Read more
Your nightmare this evening comes to you from Australia, where a woman kept returning to the hospital for a range of symptoms — until doctors found a worm living in her brain. Since 2021, doctors had been treating the 64-year-old woman with steroids and other drugs for pneumonia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dry cough, fever and … Read more
It’s a terrifying reminder that snakes can also climb trees. Spine-tingling footage captured the moment a massive 16-foot snake slithered over the roof of a family’s house in Australia right as they were tucking into their midday meal. Video of the incident has amassed over 12 million views on TikTok as viewers admire the slitherer … Read more
He’s a Fed-Exterminator. A Nebraska FedEx courier named Matt Govier went above and beyond the call of package delivery duty after heroically killing a rattlesnake that was lurking on a woman’s front porch. Doorbell camera footage of the courageous deed is blowing up online as viewers praise the deliveryman for his bravery. “I nominate Matt … Read more
His Hogwarts house sure wouldn’t be Slytherin. A Florida teenager was praised for wrasslin’ up a massive, 15-foot-6-inch python during his first-ever trip to the state’s southernmost Everglades National Park on Sunday. The reptile-wrangling rock star, 18-year-old Jack Cronin of Fort Meyers, had but one thing to say after impressively capturing the monstrous leviathan. “I … Read more
Why did it have to be snakes? Harrison Ford’s iconic character Indiana Jones might fear and hate snakes, but the star was enthusiastic to be the namesake for a newly-discovered snake species. “This discovery is humbling,” Ford, 81, told the Hollywood Reporter. Ford was referring to a newly-discovered snake species that is now called “Tachymenoides … Read more
Hissing pipes are a telltale sign of plumbing problems — especially when there’s a snake inside. That was the circumstance for one horrified woman who found the slithering reptile in her toilet and spent two days trying to get rid of it. Michelle Lespron had just returned home after a trip, hurrying to the bathroom … Read more
A 4-year-old is being dubbed a “mini Steve Irwin” after taking the internet by storm by cuddling deadly pythons, chasing wild wombats and rescuing koalas. Millions of people on TikTok have watched Ashlee Neille interact with many wildlife creatures at her family’s shelter in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Her dad, Josh Neille, said she’s already fallen … Read more
How do you eat a python? One giant cobra at a time. Footage captured the incredible moment a “cannibal” cobra decided to turn on its own kind and devour a monster python in India. The spine-tingling footage, shot by onlookers in Mysuru, Karnataka, shows the venomous Indian cobra ingesting the three-foot Burmese python, a giant … Read more
Not how you want to get intoxicated from the bottle. A UK dad’s weed-whacking session went horribly awry after he was bit by a venomous snake in a bottle — which blistered his skin and caused his blood to literally curdle. “I got the shock of my life when I realized I’d been bitten — … Read more
Beach walkers were greeted with a grisly scene on Tuesday, with an enormous snake stopping them in their tracks during their early-morning stroll. They encountered a highly venomous stokes sea snake with a sizable gouge out of its side on Sunshine Beach, near Noosa on the Queensland Sunshine Coast. The walkers reported the startling find … Read more
Its eyes were bigger than its brain. A New Mexico rattlesnake was left looking a bit more rectangular than usual after the reptile swallowed a mouse — while it was still in a mousetrap. “When you think you have seen it all,” Espanola’s Cottonwood Rehab, an animal rescue service that saved the rattler, wrote in … Read more
A grandfather received a scare when he opened a bag of broccoli — and found a live snake tucked inside it. Neville Linton, 63, said discovering the young ladder snake, which is capable of a nasty bite, was a “frightening” experience, as SWNS, the British news service, reported of the incident. He said he bought the broccoli from an … Read more
Flying snakes aren’t only found on planes. Footage captured the heart-pounding moment that a snake slithered over a running ceiling fan, before suddenly flying at the unsuspecting camera person. A video of the skin-crawling incident has amassed over 24 million views on Instagram. The freaky footage, taken in an unspecified location, shows the unidentified serpent … Read more
A Melbourne, Australia nightclub is under investigation after it was slammed for letting influencers holding snakes and baby crocodiles at its relaunch event. Two Wrongs’ Instagram page was flooded with pictures of influencers posing with the reptiles on Saturday night, but any evidence of the event has since vanished from the account. Model Morgan Waterhouse … Read more
Serpenti turns 75 this year, and the house is going all out celebrating the diamond anniversary of its enduring icon. To commemorate the occasion, the Roman jeweler is adding four new pieces to its best-selling snake collection and has teamed with contemporary artists on a series of collaborations across the globe. Called “Serpenti: 75 Years … Read more
This vacation took a scary — and slithery — turn. A man in Australia called a snake catcher to let him know his wife sucked up one of the venomous creatures in a vacuum cleaner. The pair was at a resort in Queensland and enlisted the aid of Drew Godfrey of Hervey Bay Snake Catchers to, at first, remove … Read more