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The festival of Nag Panchami, which is being celebrated today, is an annual occasion where Hindus worship snakes

Thomas Adamson & Nico Garriga PARIS (AP) – The Mona Lisa may maintain her famously enigmatic smile because she benefits from one of Paris’ best-kept secrets: An underground cooling system that’s helped the Louvre cope with the sweltering heat that has broken temperature records across Europe. The little-known “urban cold” network snakes unsuspecting beneath Parisians’ […]

Burmese pythons are native to parts of Southeast Asia, but they were introduced to the Sunshine State in the 1970s and 1980s.

Here is something you may not know. What is a group of rats called? A mischief. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com

The amount of venom extracted from Titan, a king brown snake living at Australian Reptile Park, was enough to kill 20 humans.

The Thiruvananthapuram-Nizamuddin Express was halted at Kozhikode Kerala for over two hours to search for a snake, reports PTI.   

Muscat, July 27The Health Affairs unit of the Muscat Municipality held a training programme for 20 employees in rescuing snakes and handling emergency situations arising out of...

An invasive species in Florida, Burmese pythons pose a significant threat to native wildlife.

Elliot Senseman, the 28-year-old Lehigh County man whose pet snake strangled his neck last week, died Sunday, July 24. Police had shot the boa constrictor to remove it from Senseman, who was in cardiac arrest. The Lehigh County Coroner's Office determine he died of an anoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation, by constriction.

A new species of poisonous pit viper was identified in China's Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, a site that is part of the World Heritage List.