Just think of it as evolution in action.http://video.foxnews.com/v/4449139376001/man-might-lose-hand-after-taking-selfie-with-rattlesnake/?icid=

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/cobras-protect-baby_n_5599335.html

There's nothing terrifying about this, dammit. These appear to be Hamadryad cobras, which are highly intelligent, and often curious about us. That they can ( Read more... )

Ancient Crocodiles, Titanoboa & Evolution | LiveScience

http://www.livescience.com/16064-ancient-freshwater-crocodile.html/

In what might seem like a scene from a monster movie, an ancient 20-foot crocodile and the world's largest snake may have ( Read more... )

http://www.cracked.com/article_18746_the-9-most-mind-blowing-disguises-in-animal-kingdom.html

Nation & World | Tiny Chihuahua saves life of 1-year-old Colo. boy attacked by rattlesnake | Seattle Times Newspaper

Most of the time, I think of Chihuahua dogs as the "no-brakes" dogs, with little in the way of either common sense or civilized behavior. That isn't fair -- as witness.

(Nota bene: That rattler's behavior was unusual, given the ( Read more... )

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Red Drum Spider vs. Coral Snake

Mercury Contamination in Invasive Pythons Discovered | Florida Everglades Pythons | LiveScience

Not only are the damned pythons eating up everything in the everglades, including other snakes, but they're so contaminated with mercury that they're unsafe to eat.

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itnsource - July 16, 2007 - Snakes usually have hamsters for lunch. But when rat snake Ao-chan and dwarf hamster Gohan-chan met at a Japanese zoo, it was love - and not at first bite. Now, the 120-centimetre snake and gray hamster are room mates, living together in a heated glass box ( Read more... )