Leonardo DiCaprio is a snake. A newly discovered species of a toothy snake in the Western Himalayas has been named in the actor’s honor, according to an “ongoing study” published in the ...

Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S. Jenna Palmisano, a biologist at the University of Central Florida, holds a ...

Aesculapian snakes are unusual compared with domestic species in the UK, which normally try to avoid built-up human areas. Some are living wild in Wales after an escape in the 1970s but they've ...

The Dodgers had a snake problem in their dugout before dropping Game 2 of the NLCS to the Mets on Monday. A snake slithered into the Los Angeles dugout at the top of the fifth inning before the ...

One of the largest snake species in Europe has been found in the roofs and walls of houses in Wales, researchers have found. These aesculapian snakes originally escaped from the Welsh Mountain Zoo ...

Britain has only three native snakes but a fourth species, the 2-metre-long Aesculapian snake, is breeding in the wild in at least two places – by exploiting the warmth of buildings and compost ...

Invasive snakes breeding in the wild in at least three UK regions crawl up walls and into attics to survive, researchers said. Aesculapian snakes, which can grow to over 7ft long, originally ...

The terms “snake oil” and “snake-oil salesperson” are part of the vernacular thanks to Clark Stanley, a quack doctor who marketed a product for joint pain in the late 19th century Jordan ...

A Russell's Viper - one of the most venomous snakes in the world - bit a man in Bihar's Bhagalpur. What he did next was unexpected. The man, Prakash Mandal, grabbed the venomous snake by its mouth ...

The impressive feat challenges what gape models suggest the invasive snakes are physically capable of. "It felt like we were literally catching the serial killer in the act and it was intense to ...

She knew, almost immediately, she'd been bitten by a snake. But it was only when she noticed a slither of brown that she felt the pangs of panic. "You always hear they [brown snakes] are the ...