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A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.
There were a couple of things wrong with Katie Prewitt's Geo Tracker. There was the rope that seemed to hang from the car's undercarriage. And then that hissing noise; maybe a faulty emissions valve. She took the car into her husband's Klamath Falls body shop, but Dave Prewitt wasn't quite sure what to make of the problem, either. He called his friend Martin Schenck, who works across the street at Downtown Automotive, looking for a little help.
A Northern California biologist says he has found a population of giant garter snakes, a federally threatened species that many thought had vanished.
A nearly 4-foot-long snake that eats rodents has been caught after crawling through a Bronx family's living room where it startled three children. Police said Maria Dominguez called 911 at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and said that the yellow rat snake had sneaked into her family's fourth-floor apartment.
A spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Public Schools says a high school student swung around a snake from a biology class but didn't use it as a jump rope as police had said. Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said Wednesday that "it's not a big enough snake to jump rope with."
A Tampa Bay area high school baseball coach has been temporarily relieved of his duties while authorities investigate the killing and burial of a snake on his team's field. A Palm Harbor University High School second baseman said the coach told the team last week that they were "snake-bitten" and needed to stop their losing streak.
Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.
Snake-like robots that can climb scaffolding to inspect high-rise construction sites, bend at will to defuse roadside bombs or roll down your esophagus to peer at your digestive tract may soon be lending construction workers, soldiers and doctors a flexible hand.
Animal authorities in western Ohio have a possible sequel to "Snakes on a Plane": a case of a snake in a car. The Clark County Humane Society is looking for the owner of a 7-foot-long boa constrictor found under the hood of a vehicle in Springfield.
A Michigan State Police trooper fatally shot a nearly 7-foot long Burmese python that slithered onto a road and was spotted lunging at a passing pickup truck.
A small snake has sparked a big debate in Barbados. Residents of the wealthy Caribbean nation have been heating up blogs and clogging radio airwaves to vent their anger at a U.S. scientist, who earlier this week announced his "discovery" of the world's smallest snake and named it "Leptotyphlops carlae," after his wife Carla.
A man is having trouble sleeping since he found a python snake about 9 feet long under the engine of his pickup truck. Harley Burgess's shocking discovery Saturday is the second of its kind in less than a week in Maine.
Mara Ranger will be a little paranoid doing laundry now. When she was removing clothes from the washing machine at her Maine farmhouse Wednesday, the clothes moved. She told WMTW-TV, "I jumped back" and saw a snake. She quickly shut the lid and called for help.
The pastor of a Kentucky church that handles snakes in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife officers in a crackdown on the venomous snake trade.
A Londonderry, New Hampshire, woman got more than she bargained for when she opened her mailbox this week. A 3-foot-long snake was inside.
Police in Bridgeport, Conn., say they arrested a man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them, 9-foot-long pythons aren't very obedient.
The “Metal Gear Solid” video game series generates fan fervor to rival any “Star Wars” movie or Apple iProduct. What started as an action-meets-sci-fi title for the Japanese MSX2 computer in 1987 has become a deeply beloved, multi-platinum hit machine.
A woman who awoke to her baby's cries was shocked to peer into the crib and find a foot-long snake wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter's leg.
Kevin Garnett led the Boston Celtics to their first win on the road in the playoffs. He had plenty of help. Garnett scored 22 points and was one of six players to make the Celtics' first six baskets, helping them build the first of many big leads en route to a 94-80 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night and a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.
A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more than 3 feet in length.
Commuters in the Philippine capital got a shock when they found an unwelcome passenger on their minibus: a 7-foot-long python.
Anne Arundel County police say a Glen Burnie woman was surprised by a three-foot python that slithered out from behind her media stand while she watched television in her living room.
A high school coach emptying his luggage after a team trip to South Carolina was bitten by a small rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into his bag, authorities said.
A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.
Update: Python hunt falls well short of expectationsThe state's big python hunt that began on July 17 ends Saturday, but of the estimated 100,000 or so pythons slithering in the Everglades, as of Thursday python hunters caught only 37, according to wftv.com of Orlando.
Toilet snake is finally capturedA 3m snake believed to have been living in toilet pipes in a block of flats for three months has been caught. The boa constrictor, named Keith, is thought to have been abandoned by a resident who was evicted after owing £5,500 in rent to his landlord.
Snake with foot found in ChinaA snake with a single clawed foot has been discovered in China, according to reports.
Snake wrangler catches huge carpet python in toilet A MAN got the fright of his life - and learnt he should keep the toilet seat down - when he found a python almost double his size in his dunny
Holidaymakers spot unwelcome hitchhikerA Dutch family on their way home from holiday in Italy got the shock of their lives when a 1.5 metre snake crawled from under their car bonnet during the trip, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday.
Poisonous African green mamba snake bites cable worker: Video ReportVictim responds to treatment while officials hunt for the highly toxic snake
Local Neighborhood on Alert, Boa Constrictor MissingLocals in Jacksonville Beach are keeping their children indoors. A 911 call went out for a missing snake. Police called homeowners using the reverse 911 system, warning them to "Be On the Look Out" for a boa constrictor that escaped from a cage.
Poisonous snake bites British tourist in Bavarian supermarket The relaxing Bavarian holiday of a British tourist recently took a dramatic turn after she was bitten by a poisonous snake in an Oberammergau grocery store.
Useful Resources - Sting Pain IndexAmong connoisseurs of insect stings, it's the equivalent of Robert Parker's wine ratings. Schmidt has been stung by about 150 different species on six continents and seems to have opinions about all of them.
There have been a number of recent articles about people being attacked by reptiles. Of particular interest to me is a suspected adder attack in the UK, which is a pretty rare occurrence.
Ambulance staff use Google to identify snake used in teen attackAmbulance staff "consulted Google" after a teenager was bitten by a snake during an attack by a gang armed with the reptiles.
'Two-headed' snake fakes out predatorsOne species of venomous sea snake shows the advantages of being two-faced. This slithering reptile twists its tail so its hind end appears to predators as a second head.
Cryptozoology's Latest Quarry: The Mongolian Death WormScientists are constantly finding new creatures and/or species. I hope this one pans out because "Tremors" is one of my favorite movies.
House gift: 8-foot boa - St. Petersburg TimesTrash was waist-deep in the dining room of the house on Lakeview Drive. The pool was a lagoon. The house was in foreclosure, and the previous owner left last week in the middle of the night for Wisconsin.
Snakes on a pane!STUNNED motorist Carol Dixon-Yeung nearly adder fit when this 2ft snake slithered from under her car bonnet and on to her windscreen. Petrified Carol, 27, locked her windows and gave other drivers a scare as she swerved in a bid to dislodge the bright orange reptile.
A two year old girl was strangled to death in her bedroom by an 8-foot long Burmese python that escaped from its enclosure.
Fangs for the free lunchThis deadly snake bit off more than it could chew when the toad it'd lined up for lunch turned the tables on it. Tourist Ran Longzhong thought it would be over in seconds when he spotted the venomous snake - believed to be a banded krait - pounce on the giant toad.
Pet python strangles 2-year-old Florida girlORLANDO - A 2-year-old girl was strangled to death Wednesday by her family's pet python.
Snakes and white rabbits: list of bizarre things that students leave behindWhat have a snake, a giant white rabbit, a life-size skeleton and an inflatable outdoor pool got in common? They've all been left behind in their rooms by British students.
Pet Python Slithers Into Man's Apartment - Man Hears Thump, Finds Snake In Bathroom (With Video And Photos)WINSTON-SALEM -- For a Winston-Salem man deathly afraid of snakes, waking up Tuesday morning turned out to be his worst nightmare.
Woman finds snake in the cutlery drawerA young Northern Irish woman has told how she screamed in horror at finding an 18-inch long snake in her cutlery drawer. 20-year-old Joanne Woods from Ballymoney came face to face with the black and yellow beast on Monday evening.
We have lived here in this house for about ten years and each Spring we are visited by Mr and Mrs Duck.
Israel's New Weapon: "Robotic Snake""The IDF has another new weapon in it's arsenal, a robotic snake. This Self-propelled robot is able to broadcast video using a reconnaissance camera and sound to a monitor and control station.
Snake vision to fight chemo-terrorism"Urban water supplies are particularly vulnerable to chemoterror, says Israeli physicist Prof. Abraham Katzir. Colorless and odorless liquids can't be seen by the human eye and water supplies aren't necessarily subject to daily testing.
Israel Develops Military Robot SnakeIsraeli defense researchers are working on a robot snake that can sneak through cracks and into buildings to send back sound and video of enemy movements — or even plant explosives.
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