“There’s no need to be so scared of them if you just know their limitations,” he said, holding the snake between his thumb and forefinger. This is called “free-handling” — the ...

Dramatic footage of the moment a five-year-old girl in Texas was ambushed by a large black snake on the porch outside her home has been captured on a doorbell camera. A video shared with Newsweek ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. When envenomation occurs in humans, bites are often painless and ...

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

Northern copperhead snakes are one of two venomous snake species found in New Jersey and should never be touched, according to New Jersey Fish and Wildlife. They can be easily camouflaged in ...

The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is the longest snake in the world, regularly reaching over 6.25 metres in length. It is the longest of the 39 species in the family Pythonidae. The ...

When wildlife officials in Georgia stumbled upon a pair of seemingly lifeless snakes that had been vomited up by another, larger snake, they were already surprised by what they had found.

Flying snake is a misnomer, since, barring a strong updraft, these animals can’t actually gain altitude. They’re gliders, using the speed of free fall and contortions of their bodies to catch ...

Snake case is a naming convention where a developer replaces spaces between words with an underscore. Most object-oriented programming languages don't allow variable, method, class and function names ...

The snake has been donated to Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo in Rome, N.Y. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation/Facebook A 13-foot snake was seized from a home in August and donated to a zoo ...

When water isn’t draining as quickly as it should—or, worse, isn’t draining at all—DIY-savvy folks reach for a drain snake. Also called a plumbing snake or drain auger, this handy tool is ...

The northern copperhead snake is described as having two shades of copper or a reddish-brown color. It "inhabits rocky fields, berry thickets, woodlands and farmlands and may even be discovered ...