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Christmas falls right in the middle of Australias snake season, with the reptiles more active and slithering into properties

Every year about 3,600 people are killed by snakebites in Guinea, which has one of the highest concentration of mambas, cobras and vipers on Earth. At the country’s specialised snakebite clinic, patients arrive after difficult journeys to receive lifesaving antivenom. But others go first to traditional healers, a delay that risks severe complications and death

Security has been warning residents to be on the lookout for the huge serpent.

PHUKET: Rescue workers from the Kusoldharm Foundation yesterday (Dec 7) delivered 42 snakes that had been caught in residential areas to the Khao Phra Thaeo Nature and Wildlife Education Center in Tha

>> spiders or snakes? >> neither! >> trace: you have to pick one. >> no. i cant. im not. >> trace: laundry or dishes? >> neither! i dont like domestic work! >> what? you pick laundry? >> ill do the laundry but im not doing dishes. >> trace: laundry it is. jason, this or that. early or late? >> late. >> trace: vacation? staycation? >> vacation! im outta here! >> trace: yeah. save or spend! >> i live in seat, man. >> trace: thats right. you have to get away. you have to get out of the thing. save ...

The death adder, found lurking at a family home in Australia, was "extremely cranky" as a snake catcher arrived to remove it.

Anti-toxins to take with them. how about saying dont go into a swamp is poisonous snakes. dont mess with this stuff in the first place. i hope the schools are sending that message loud and clear. again, i just worry were enabling and encouraging people by saying we got the net, go ahead and jump. it is not a good posture. a tool in a toolkit, okay. >> dana: curious what you would think in todays day and age what is the most effective use trying to educate kids or most effective method to educate...

New research shows a continually warming world is leading to extended, late-summer weeks of water stratification in lakes, which prompts oxygen deprivation in the water provoking conditions called hypoxia (low oxygen) and anoxia (no oxygen) and negative consequences for fish and other species.

7-year-old loved animals and jewelry and loved candy and sweets and diving boards and her baby sisters. her mother said athena loved school and drawing and wanted hair as long as rapunzels. her favorite color was pink and across wise county the color popped up everywhere. pink ribbons and balloons and teddy bears adorned the streets. mostly, residents like bobby dean are struggling to understand how such evil can walk up your driveway. >> out here you let your kids go outside and encourage it. g...

Snake catcher Justin Bagby arrived to remove the 4-foot-long snake, which had entered the home through a hole in a gate.