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Whether a Mumbai resident or a discerning traveller, Juhu invariably graces your itinerary. Immortalised in films like Hero No. 1, Coolie No. 1, and the Oscar-w ...
This rare and unsettling behavior was caught on camera. Find out why snakes may self-cannibalize under stress or confusion.
Though small in size—rarely exceeding 15 inches—the Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus) captures attention with its unique defensive behavior. When threatened, it curls its tail upward to ...
If you think that dogs chasing their own tails are fascinating, the snake in this YouTube video clip will blow your mind! It features a speckled kingsnake that has swallowed its own tail.
Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...
Photos released by Mumbai Customs showed dozens of turquoise-coloured pit vipers squirming in a bucket and venomous spider-tailed horned ... but the snakes were still alive and were later sent ...
Researchers have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms. Every five minutes, 50 people are ...
The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers ... The passenger, details of whom were not released, also had three Spider-tailed horned vipers – which are venomous, but usually target ...
A Sunshine Coast-based snake catcher has reported the death of a red-bellied black snake to the Queensland Environment Department. The snake catcher had been called to a property to relocate the ...
The hunters were formerly a numerous and merry crew here.” But what happened to white-tailed deer? What drove them nearly to extinction, and then what brought them back from the brink?