All news on the topic: Snakes

The gran showed lightning-fast reactions as she dashed to scoop up the little tot as the large snake attempted to strike the baby in his playpen at the home in Uthai Thani, Thailand

A McDonald's branch in Newhaven, East Sussex, was forced to close for several hours after a customer walked in with live insects to feed their pet snake - pest control were called to fix the issue

Danielle Denton was walking barefoot along a cliff-top when she stepped on a sunbathing adder - and ended up in hospital after she unsuccessfully tried to suck the venom out of her toe

Katherine Thornton, from Guisborough, has told how her daughter found freshly shed snake skin at their home and they believe the reptile has found its way into their house

The large snake dropped out of the furniture as it was being prepped by Cunninghame Furniture Recycling in Irvine, North Ayrshire, who save unwanted furniture from landfill

Dutch biologist Professor Freek Vonk discovered the species in Brazil. He was filmed swimming next to the enormous anaconda. The study included a team of 15 scientists

Snake catchers found one of the world's deadliest snakes at a retirement home, where residents first found the venomous creature wandering the dining hall before disappearing

Among the predators which frequent Britain are some creatures which keep their distance. Here we round up the UK's creatures that can attack or bite if provoked

A huge gear stick knob had been trapped in a snake's stomach for so long that there was a hole worn through its skin - leaving vets no choice but to operate on him

An Australian woman was rendered terrified when she discovered a sinister snake attempting to strangle her cat to death, forcing her to perform an ill-prepared rescue operation

Meanwhile, half love watching their new furry friend learn to love its new family - and six in 10 even feel they have 'saved' their pet's life, the research found

Snake catcher Mark Pelley from Melbourne, Australia, was called to the home to deal with an eastern brown snake which a horrified mum discovered in her child's drawer

Passengers on an AirAsia flight spotted the snake slithering above them during the flight, and of course people are making Snakes on a Plane jokes

Golfer Ben Bishop claims he was bitten by the adder, the UK's only venomous snake, and had to be rushed to hospital after going into anaphylactic shock

The woman seriously freaked out when she realised she had a very unwanted visitor in her home - and that her pet cat was actually playing with it

Rangers overseeing the safety of this year's cast of ITV I'm A Celebrity campmates were forced to act swiftly to remove a potentially deadly serpent as it approached Sam Thompson

A toddler in Brazil was saved from certain death by heroic police who stopped a terrifying attack from a yellow anaconda that had already wrapped itself around its victim

A little boy in China thought it would be a great prank to take a six-foot snake into his house where his grandmother was resting peacefully as his friends watched on

The rescue centre has had its busiest every year as owners struggle to heat their homes for the reptiles and now the charity has been left with a desperate choice

A female zoo worker was hospitalised after an eastern diamondback rattlesnake launched an attack in the 'behind the scenes area' at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio

Experts believe the python was so exhausted after digesting a meal - understood to have been a goat - on October 19 that it could not move in Kubang Pasu, Malaysia

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The snake started causing problems when cats in the neighbourhood started disappearing in Oklahoma. Eventually the huge snake was found to be living underneath a particular house surrounded by the carcasses of its prey

RSPCA officers have been dealing with a number of snakes on the loose in the same West Sussex village - one of which was a staggering four feet long

Heart-wrenching footage shows the moments just after an unsuspecting Amazon driver was bitten by a venomous rattlesnake while delivering a package to a Palm City, Florida, home