"SNAKES ON A PLANE" PREMIERE
Cast member Samuel L. Jackson handles Kitty Jr., a Burmese python, at the premiere of "Snakes on a Plane" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California on August 17, 2006. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 18. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
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FANNIE BAY, Australia, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- An Australian woman says she hated snakes even before she found 14 young carpet pythons in her bedroom.
LONDON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The London Zoo is celebrating eight blessed events -- the hatching of a clutch of rhino rat snakes, a rare species from Southeast Asia.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- About 20,000 people die of snakebites worldwide each year, more than half of them in India, a study reveals.
LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Animal welfare groups have criticized a London restaurant for serving python in a coconut sauce.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A 13-foot reticulated python blamed for the death of a Virginia woman has been put down at the request of her husband.
LEHIGHTON, Pa., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania animal rescuer says he is no longer able to care for more than 150 snakes, some of them venomous, abandoned by a dealer.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered snakes, salamanders and other creatures thrive in areas that have high deer populations.
SALVADOR, Brazil, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Brazilian authorities in the country's northeast say they discovered a cache of drugs being guarded by boa constrictors.
MIDDLETOWN, Del., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A Delaware woman said she vacated her home after discovering at least six baby rat snakes in her bathroom, bedroom and burrowing under her rug.
NEWARK, Del., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Negative political ads makes a person want to turn away physically, but the mind remembers negative messages -- sometimes incorrectly -- U.S. researchers say.