#Snakes

For the second time in three months, a story of an unsuspecting driver finding a live rattlesnake inside their car has made the national news. This time around, an officer in the Wheat Ridge neighborhood of Denver, Colorado was checking trailheads when he spotted a car with visible drug

A healthy fear of snakes is innate in humans. Humans have feared snakes long before Eve was tempted with an apple. Snake mythology in human culture dates back as far as 2000 BCE (that we know of) in an image of the Sumerian deity Ningizzida holding a rod with two snakes coiling around it. In fact,

The largest known species of snake to ever exist is Titanoboa (pictured above). Or, well, it was. Now, a new species of prehistoric snake named Vasuki indicus may have taken over the top spot. That’s because scientists in India recently discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that

The last thing anyone wants to come face-to-face with while at a relaxing resort is a wild animal capable of killing them but that’s the exact reality that ‘Joe in Thailand’ faced when he looked out of his hotel room in Thailand and saw a king cobra large enough to scare an elephant. After posting

A pet snake was returned home after it was missing for a year and it happened in the most unlikely of ways. In fact, it sounds like something straight out of a kid’s movie and not real life. The pet corn snake, a female named Agnus, went missing over a year ago after it escaped from its owners