For Taylor Swift, karma is a cat purring on her lap. But for one South Carolina man, karma takes a different form—a poisonous snake that bites his hand. Jeffrey Leibowitz, a snake influencer who runs “Venomous Snakes Classified,” a Facebook group with nearly 50,000 members, once wrote, “Antivenom is for cowards.” Videos from VICE In […]
Watch: Video shows snake on the back of an alligator in Florida A Florida man captured a video of a snake riding on the back of an alligator. A South Carolina teacher is currently fighting for his life in the hospital after being bitten by a venomous snake last week. The Florence resident, identified by […]
This pet is his-torical. A four-meter-long Burmese python was brought to a New York zoo after its owner admitted it had grown too big for his care. The three-and-a-half-year-old snake, named Mango, is now in the care of the Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo in Rome, New York, after the pet was turned over to authorities, […]
NEW HARTFORD, NY — A 13-foot-long (4-meter-long) tiger python was confiscated from a man in upstate New York who kept the still-growing snake in a small aquarium, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Protection said it received a complaint on August 28 about an illegally kept snake in New Hartford. Environmental Protection Officer Jeff […]
Officials with the Somerset County, New Jersey, Department of Conservation have issued a warning to be on the lookout for northern copperheads after one of the species was spotted last week in Watchung, a Garden State borough less than an hour from New York City. The northern copperhead snake is described as being bi-copper or […]
WAYNESBORO, Va. (WHSV) – The Wildlife Center of Virginia regularly sees patients caught in glue traps. Olivia Schiermeyer, a veterinary researcher at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, said they have observed birds and snakes getting stuck on the sticky traps. A sticky trap is made of thick, sticky glue with a paper backing that is […]
Diagram showing the location of the so-called mechanoreceptors (sensilla), which detect … (+) vibrations and can be useful in exploring their surroundings. Isabella Velasquez Canyon. Researchers in Colombia have studied the skin of water snakes to find out how sensilla – tiny sensor-like structures – might help them find and attack prey. The sensilla are […]
