A daring snake charmer takes the ultimate risk – by biting and lifting with his mouth a deadly banded krait. The fearless Thai man plucked the highly venomous black and yellow snake from the floor ...

Nov. 10 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in India came to the assistance of a highly venomous snake found stuck in a fishing net in a rice field. Residents of Mangalpur, in the Puri district of Odesha, ...

A fraction of a second after William Sargent’s torch light catches the unmistakable glint of snake skin he roars into action, sliding on a protective glove and launching himself into the dense green ...

A resident of Odisha’s Cuttack district found a den a banded krait with eggs in an unused toilet pit. The Snake Helpline found 3 deadly banded krait snakes and 2 clutches of white coloured eggs inside ...

There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

To find banded sea kraits, ask a guy in Cleveland. Or at least look up his work. Iulian Gherghel, who is earning a Ph.D. in biology at Case Western Reserve University, teamed with researchers in ...

Snakes known to produce some of the most toxic venoms swim the shallows of the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans and sun themselves on island coasts from southwestern Japan to Indonesia, the ...

New Caledonia residents succeed in educating people to respect their sea kraits. Here a visitor drops to the ground to admire a “tricot raye” crawling ashore for a rest. “That’s OK,” she said. “He ...