An international team of scientists identified the snake and its range, which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, and Russia including a small region extending into the corner of Europe. Based on the genetic and morphological data, the researchers were able to say that the Blotched Rat Snake (Elaphe …
Florida wildlife officials are considering a ban on possessing several large, nonnative reptile species after a pet Burmese python killed a 2-year-old girl last month. Col. Julie Jones, director of law enforcement for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, discussed that option with Gov. Charlie Crist when he visited …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Just about twenty days after the city zoo lost its huge sand boa, the Government Ayurveda College Research Centre at Poojappura too has lost its red sand boa. The boa was smuggled out of its cage - under lock and key - from a room, which was also locked, …
DHARMAPURI: The Dharmapuri police arrested two persons and seized a Sand boa snake from them in Kundalpatti, near here, on Thursday. According to a release from the SP office, on a tip off that the snake was caught in a garden belonging to T. Sigamani in Mallikuttai village, near Kundalpatti, …
KOCHI: After ivory, ganja and sandalwood, the smugglers are now madly after King Cobra and other venomous snakes in the forests as 10 ml venom of a King Cobra would fetch crores of rupees in the international black market. The smuggling of snake venom had come to light after the …
IN what seems to be a creepy affair, eight sand boas were stolen from the snake park at Guindy on Sunday, while only a day before a similar one went missing from Vandalur zoo
A Florida toddler was strangled on Wednesday by a 12-foot (3.6-metre) albino Burmese python that escaped from a holding tank in the girl's home, authorities said. The pet's owner, a boyfriend of the child's mother, found the python on top of the 2-year-old girl in the rural community of Oxford, …
The Red Sand Boa, an endangered snake, is in danger, due to rampant trafficking in recent times. A few farmers in Kanakapura, Hiriyur, Chitradugra and Doddaballapur have started rearing snakes, especially Red Sand Boa also known as
AHMEDABAD: Some posh addresses in the city are reporting new claimants. Or maybe old claimants are returning to haunt the new ones! Suddenly, with monsoons getting closer, snakes are surfacing in these areas taking residents by surprise. On Tuesday five kraits, a rat snake and two kukris were found from …
June 8: The Red Sand Boa, an endangered snake, is being smuggled out of the state because of its medicinal value. Forest officials nabbed a gang of smugglers at Chittoor a few days ago with a snake weighing 3 kg. But they secured their release by paying Rs 1 lakh …
Poisoning from pesticides, drug medicaments, biological substances and snake bites, are now the eight causes of death in Sri Lanka. In 2005 18,174 people died of poisoning, in 2006 19,381 died of poisoning and in 2007 23,675 people have died of poisoning. The increase in the mortality rate due to …
The population of Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades may have grown to as many as 150,000 as the non-native snakes make a home and breed in the fragile wetlands, officials said Thursday. Wildlife biologists say the troublesome invaders -- dumped in the Everglades by pet owners who no longer want …
One fifth of Europe's reptiles and nearly a quarter of its amphibians are in danger because of the threat humans pose to their natural habitat, according to a study carried out for the European Commission. The tortoise family, vipers, wall lizards such as the Tenerife speckled lizard, and pond turtles …
Jose Kurian SULTHAN BATHERY: Are snakes less venomous than men? So believes Muhammed, a snake catcher here who is a lover of snakes. A true friend of snakes of all sorts, starting from harmless water snakes to fatal King Kobras, Muhammed is ready to save snakes from the fury of …
Anti-snake venom processing laboratory will soon start production at National Institute of Health (NIH), said Health Minister Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani on Friday. He was addressing groundbreaking ceremony of the country
A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said on Wednesday. Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area …
Coimbatore: The Forest Department officials on Thursday arrested three persons during a vehicle check and recovered a Sand Boa snake measuring nearly 1 m and said to be worth over Rs. 1 lakh. On instructions from Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, R. Kannan and District Forest Officer, I. Anwardeen to …
