Authorities in southeastern Spain were forced to temporarily shut down a popular stretch of sand earlier this week after two venomous sea creatures known as “blue dragons” were spotted. The town of Guardamar del Segura, located just north of Torrevieja on Spain’s Mediterranean Costa Blanca, implemented a swimming ban across all beaches after the rare … Read more
Snakes don’t rattle him — in fact, he has long invited their bites. Wisconsin herpetologist Tim Friede, 57, spent two decades deliberately injecting himself with more than 650 strategically measured snake venom shots and letting dangerous snakes, including cobras and mambas, bite him over 200 times. “It always burns, and it’s always, always painful,” Friede told Science … Read more
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the sea deed is done. Females are typically twice the size of males and will commonly chow down on their sexual partners after … Read more
An Australian snake hunter discovered the second-most venomous snake in the world in a toddler’s underwear drawer. Mark Pelley, based in Melbourne, was asked to remove a 5-foot Eastern brown snake from a 3-year-old’s bedroom. “Mum went to get some clothes for her son and found a large five-foot brown snake instead,” Pelley wrote of … Read more
It was a dangerous case of mis-snake-en identity. An Australian hiker had to be hospitalized after being bitten by a snake he believed to be non-venomous while bringing it home to show his kids. Local serpent catcher Ray McGibbon detailed the painful ordeal in a post on his business’s Facebook page. “The hiker is feeling … 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
Manchester City defender Kyle Walker reportedly is at the center of a public feud between his wife, Annie Kilner, and his ex-girlfriend, Lauryn Goodman. Walker and Kilner share three sons: Riaan, Roman and Reign, while the 33-year-old soccer star also fathered a fourth son named Kairo with Goodman while he and Kilner were briefly split up. … Read more
A Queensland, Australia hospital has been forced to call a snake catcher after a patient brought in a venomous snake after being bitten. Hervey Bay Snake Catchers was called to Hervey Bay Hospital on January 20 after a man brought in the reptile in a jar after he stepped on it. Snake catcher Drew Godfrey … Read more