Earth 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 April 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 December 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 October 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 September 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.

7 September 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 August 2019

India

Man bites snake: Indian man retaliates after snake attack

An Indian man bit a snake to pieces after it attacked him at his home in Uttar Pradesh state.

30 July 2019

World News

Snakebite deaths 'one of the world's biggest hidden health crises'

They kill more than 120,000 people a year and leave another 400,000 with life-changing disabilities, a charity has said.

17 May 2019

Indonesia

Papua police apologises after using snake in an interrogation

Indonesian police apologised after a video circulating on social media showed officers using a snake to extract a confession from a suspect.

11 February 2019

Sweden

Tropical snake makes appearance in Lapland toilet bowl

Johan-Martin said all he could "think in the moment was, 'huh...I peed on a snake,' before smacking the toilet lid shut."

30 November 2018