Not long ago, Tess Guthrie's cat was hissing so loud that the sound woke her from her slumber. And when the 22-year old Australian mom did open her eyes she saw a six foot python had wrapped itself around the arm of her six-month-old daughter, who was sleeping right next to her.
This enormous Burmese python was killed by Florida park rangers this week after it crashed a family's holiday outing.
Most people have never actually seen the movie 'Snakes On A Plane.' But thanks to its descriptive name and an aggressive ad campaign based around star Samuel L. Jackson's proclivity for profanity, we all know the bad things that can happen if the slithery reptiles get loose on an aircraft.
By this point, it should be fairly obvious that getting distracted by a cell phone can be extremely hazardous to your health. And yet, a teen girl in California actually fell into a pit of rattlesnakes while searching for a signal in the desert. Need further proof? We didn't think so.
You've surely heard the phrase "Man bites dog," which is a journalistic term that describes how unusual events -- like a man biting a dog -- get more coverage than typical ones, like a dog biting a man.
This story out of Nepal mixes both the unusual and the typical. It started when famer Mohammed Salmodin was bitten by a cobra while working in the field.
A new disease has been founded in snakes that causes them to both act drunk and tie themselves into knots. Yes, this is a real thing.
A Washington state man got much more than he bargained for when he was bitten by a rattlesnake while shopping at a local Walmart. Uh, excuse us, what aisle is the anti-venom in?
Like the plot of the Samuel L. Jackson movie of the same name, an Australian pilot found himself staring at a snake as he maneuvered a plane through the air. The fact that the small Air Frontier plane was carrying no passengers and it was only one snake didn't temper the drama one bit.
While you may know former Guns N' Roses member (and current solo artist) Slash as a guitar god, we here at TheFW appreciate his love for our slithery, scaly friends. The rocker is a longtime fan of snakes, and at one point had over 80 of them in his home. (He gave them up after the birth of his son.) And as our pals at Loudwire recently discovered, he's also a fan of everyone's favorite Golden Girl.