Filipino Healer Treats the Sick with Pit Viper Bites
For years, Rosalio Culit, a self-described healer from the Philippines, has been treating the sick by allowing them to be bitten by venomous pit vipers. Rosalio Culit, also known as Datu Kamandag among his fellow Manobo tribe members in Surigao del Norte, Mindanao, is a controversial healer who uses viper venom to treat various ailments. […]
Woman Survives Almost Two Hours with 13-Foot-Long Python Coiled Around Her Body
A 64-year-old woman was attacked by a large python while doing the dishes at her house in Samut Prakan, Thailand, and survived for about two hours with the reptile trying to suffocate her to death. Arrom Arunroj had just come home from her job as a maid at a children’s hospital in Bangkok and was […]
Russian Woman Wakes Up to Boa Constrictor Coming Out of Her Toilet
A Moscow woman recently got the shock of her life when she entered her bathroom and saw a full-grown white Boa constrictor snake hanging out on her toilet bowl. Exotic snakes crawling up from toilets may not be a worthy news topic in countries like Australia or Brazil, where the slithering reptiles are virtually a […]
World’s Smallest Snake Can Easily Be Mistaken for an Earthworm
Measuring around 10 cm, with a diameter comparable to that of a cooked spaghetti, the Barbados Threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) is by far the smallest snake in the world. Spotting a Barbados threadsnake for the first time, you could swear it was an earthworm. They are actually comparable in size and diameter, with the largest specimen […]
This Small Snake Uses Farts as a Defense Mechanism
The western hook-nosed snake, a small snake endemic to the deserts of the United States and Mexico, is famous for the shape of its snout and for farting to confuse its enemies. Cobras and rattlesnakes have their deadly venom, constrictors like pythons and Boa have their strong musculature, but the western hook-nosed snake doesn’t have […]
Man Rents Poisonous Snake to Kill His Wife And Marry Another Woman
An Indian man was found guilty of murdering his wife by renting a cobra to bite her and make it look like an accident, so he could take her jewelry and marry another woman. In what has been described as a modern murder mystery, a young man from the Kollam District of the Indian state […]
The Story of a Man Who Spent 72 Hours with 72 Venomous Snakes To Prove They Only Bite if Provoked
Respected Indian herpetologist Neelam Kumar Khaire has a very interesting record to his name. In his youth, this reptile lover spent 72 hours in an enclosure with 72 venomous snakes for company. He proved that the snakes only bite when provoked, and set a Guinness record in the process. Khaire’s legendary feat dates back to […]
Snake Named After Knife Slices Into Victims to Feed on Their Innards
Small-banded kukri snakes, named after the curved Kukri knives used by Nepalese Gurkha soldiers, apparently use their sharp teeth to slice into certain victims and then proceed to eat them from the inside. Scientists already knew that kukri snakes used their curved teeth to tear into eggs, but a recent study revealed that they sometimes […]
Indian Boy Claims He Was Bitten by the Same Wild Snake Eight Times in a Single Month
A 17-year-old teenager from India’s Uttar Pradesh state is allegedly living in fear after being bitten by the same wild snake a whopping eight times in a single month. Yashraj Mishra, from Rampur village in Basti district, reportedly lives in constant fear after being targeted by a snake for reasons that remain unknown. After learning […]
14-Year-Old Girl Has Six Giant Pythons as Pets
A 14-year-old Indonesian girl has been getting a lot of attention on social media thanks to her unusual pets – six giant pythons that she loves to pet and cuddle with in her videos. Most people would run for their life at the sight of a full-grown python, especially one that looks like it could […]
This Snake Plays Dead When Threatened
The North American hognose snake, aka “puff adder, aka “zombie snake”, has a taste for the dramatic. When threatened, this natural-born artist likes to play dead in the most overacted way imaginable. The hognose snake got its first nickname, “puff adder”, for its main defense mechanism. To scare away threats, it sucks in air and […]
Indonesian Police Apologizes for Using Two-Meter Live Snake During Interrogation
Police in Papua’s Jayawijaya district, Indonesia, issued a public apology after a video showing an alleged thief being interrogated by security forces using a two-meter live snake went viral online. Human rights advocates in Indonesia are condemning the use of a live snake during the interrogation of an alleged thief in Western New Guinea. In […]
Get Ready for Realistic Snake Print Stockings
Japanese fashion design studio Mimi recently launched a collection of insanely realistic snake-print stockings that make your legs look like real snakes and, if social media feedback is any indication, they’ll soon be challenging animal print for supremacy in the fashion world. Mimi claims its new snake pattern designs put all previous models to shame […]
7-Year-Old Boy Sleeps, Bathes and Plays with Deadly Snakes
Devesh Adivasi, a 7-year-old boy from rural Madhya Pradesh, in central India, has some very unusual best friends. For the past four years, he has been going into the jungle near his village and coming back with all kinds of snakes, some of them poisonous, that he plays, bathes and eats with. So far, he hasn’t […]
Indian Man Gets High by Letting Poisonous Snakes Bite Him on the Tongue
The Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine recently reported the incredible case of a man who had been getting poisonous snakes to bite him on his tongue, because the usual narcotics no longer gave him the buzz he was looking for. Cobra venom contains one of the most potent neurotoxins on Earth, with the amount injected […]