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Enough Is Enough! Pilot Finds Snake in Cockpit

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:06:49 CDT

A real-life Snakes on a Plane played out in Australia on Tuesday, when pilot Braden Blennerhassett was forced to make an emergency landing after a snake slithered out of his dashboard 20 minutes after he took off from Darwin Airport. "I turned [the plane] around and got it headed back...

PMS Helps Women Spot Snakes

Matt Cantor — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:11:02 CST

If you're planning a walk in the woods, you may be safest just before your period. A preliminary study suggests that women in the luteal or premenstrual phase of menstruation are quickest at spotting snakes. That could be because the hormones involved can influence the amygdala, part of the brain...

Ukraine Zoo Gets Two-Headed Snake

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:58:56 CDT

A two-headed snake has gone on display at a zoo in southern Ukraine. The "Skazka" (Fairy tale) zoo in Yalta on the Black Sea said today that the albino California Kingsnake has two heads that think, react, and eat separately, though one is more passive than the other. A zoo...

Snake-Infested Home Like 'Living in a Horror Movie'

Sarah Whitmire — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:19:29 CDT

Ben and Amber Sessions thought they’d scored a major bargain when they found a five-bedroom house in the rural Idaho countryside for less than $180,000. But the dream house they purchased in 2009 turned out to be infested with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes, reports the AP. Throngs...

Cobra Never Left Zoo's Reptile House

John Johnson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:58:53 CDT

She didn't go far: Workers at the Bronx Zoo found their missing cobra curled up in a corner of the zoo's Reptile House, reports the Daily News . She had slithered out of a fiberglass box nearly a week ago but apparently never made it out of the building. Zookeepers shut...

Bronx Zoo Cobra Found ... Sorta

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:27:05 CDT

The Egyptian cobra missing from the Bronx Zoo has been found ... on Twitter . And apparently she's a big fan of Tina Fey ("OMG! Tina Fey totally just walked by me! HUUUUGE FAN!") and Dancing With the Stars ("Want to watch Ralph Macchio go down for what he did to...

Guess What's Loose at the Bronx Zoo?!

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:12:25 CDT

So the Bronx Zoo seems to have misplaced a pesky little thing we like to call a very deadly, aggressive Egyptian cobra, reports the New York Post . The 20-inch adolescent went missing yesterday, and workers who scoured all the likely places it would hide still haven't found it, reports the...

Boa Lost on Boston Subway Is Found—After 4 Weeks

John Johnson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:31:44 CST

Cancel that heebie-jeebie alert in Boston: A 3-foot boa that went missing on a subway train 6 weeks ago has finally been found and returned to her happy owner, reports WHDH-TV . The snake, named Penelope, turned up in the same set of cars where she first slithered away from her...

Owner Critical After Pet Cobra Bite

Rob Quinn — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:19:09 CST

A New Jersey man who went shopping for pet snakes over the weekend ended up in critical condition after a snake bite. The 25-year-old reptile fan was hospitalized after a bite from an albino cobra, which he had bought along with a diamondback rattlesnake and a copperhead snake, MSNBC reports.