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Lifestyle

Year of the Snake 2025: Symbolism, soup and ssstyle

The Lunar New Year starts tomorrow, welcoming the Year of the Snake. What can we expect from this year and how are people celebrating? With soup and puppets, for some...

28/01/2025

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After the Dragon, China prepares for the Year of the Snake

In China, the Year of the Snake will begin on 29 January 2025.

02/01/2025

Health news

Scientists develop antivenom for snake bites with the help of horses

According to the World Health Organisation, roughly 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year, resulting in between 83,000-138,000 deaths.

05/02/2024

Nature

From wasps to penguins: 5 new species discovered in 2023

A staggering 619 new species of wasp alone were described in 2023.

30/12/2023

Culture news

Scientists name new species of serpent after Harrison Ford

Indiana Jones: "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"

16/08/2023

Culture news

Hisssssterical: An escaped king cobra returns to its Swedish home

An escaped king cobra gives its Swedish zoo an early Halloween present...

31/10/2022

Sweden

Swedish zoo locates venomous snake in roof after 'Houdini' escape

On Friday staff had located but had yet to recapture the king cobra which escaped through a light fitting last weekend.

24/10/2022

Nature

These award-winning photos reveal the secret inner lives of animals

From a bee ball to the sperm dance of a sea star: 7 photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2022.

16/10/2022

Nature

‘Cryptic reptiles’ have been found living under gravestones in Ecuador

It’s hoped that identifying the reptiles will help reverse their fortunes and protect the country’s diminishing cloud forest.

21/09/2022

Nature

Meet the snake-hunting veterans trying to save Florida’s wetlands 

Burmese pythons first came to Florida in the 1980s as a popular exotic pet. They’re now the region’s most destructive invasive predator.

29/08/2022

Germany

German police confiscate dozens of poisonous snakes after owner bitten

The 35-year-old had told doctors there that one of her rattlesnakes bit her finger.

27/06/2022

Austria

Austrian man bitten by neighbour's python while on the toilet

An Austrian man was bitten by his neighbour's escaped python while on the toilet at his own home.

05/07/2021

Green News

This new app will protect you from deadly snakes and spiders

You can now 'Shazam' Australian snakes and spiders to identify what they are - and whether they can hurt you.

10/08/2020

Austria

Stag night snake bite: Reptile bites man on tongue at Austrian party

The local Red Cross says the group may have confused the young snake with a worm.

07/07/2020

Green News

A new species of snake has been named after a Harry Potter character

The Indian species bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the characters. But which one - Hagrid, Voldemort, Malfoy?

23/04/2020

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Rare two-headed snake causes a stir in eastern India

Villagers in India didn't want to hand over the two-headed cobra, believing it was associated with mythology.

11/12/2019

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Rescuers capture four-metre-long King Cobra in Thailand

Rescuers from the Krabi Pitakpracha Foundation captured a four-metre-long king cobra.

14/10/2019

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Thirsty cobra gets stuck in beer can

Rescuers in eastern India's Mayurbhanj district freed a cobra whose head was stuck in a beer can on Saturday

29/09/2019

Indonesia

Rare two-headed snakes found in Indonesia and U.S.

On two opposite sides of the world, two-headed snakes were recently discovered.

07/09/2019

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Thailand's self-styled snake wrangler to the rescue

In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands.

21/08/2019