“With the increased global availability of low-cost smartphones and social media in recent years, the number of reports of snakes on and around trains in India has increased, with three incidents ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the world’s most venomous snakes and strategies to avoid lethal encounters.

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Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

Your travel guide to cat islands around the world. Aoshima literally has more cats than humans, but Taiwan, Indonesia, and ...

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Last year, according to the Friends of Snakes Society (FOSs), 15,265 snakes were rescued in the state, 98 per cent, or 14,960 ...

WorldAnimalFoundation.org is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn More A single bite can mean the difference between life and death—and ...

WorldAnimalFoundation.org is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn More Some snakes live so far from human civilization that few people ...

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Marty Kupersmith, a musician then in his 70s with a lifelong love of reptiles, was relocating a timber rattlesnake that had been in someone’s doorway in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., when he got bitten in ...