March 24 (UPI) --Doctors in North Carolina said they used four vials of antivenin to treat a man who was bitten by his unusual pet: a deadly green mamba snake. The University of North Carolina Rex ...

A Raleigh man took himself straight to the hospital over the weekend after he was bitten by his pet. The thing is, the pet was a venomous green mamba snake, requiring antivenin to be flown in from a ...

A green mamba (Dendroaspis viridis) lays on a tree branch during the annual stocktaking at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. It is not the snake that bit a man in ...

Thinking about bringing home a pet that doesn’t bark, shed or beg for snacks? Enter the snake: nature’s silent, scaly roommate. While they won’t fetch your slippers, snakes make surprisingly chill ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Do you ever wonder where the wild things are? When it comes to cobras, rattlers, pit vipers, pythons and even Gila monsters, they may be living a lot closer to home than you think. 8 On Your Side has ...

While 26 snake species slither about in the Buckeye State, they are largely out of sight and mind. That’s probably a good thing to many people, as ophidiophobia (human fear of snakes) is quite common.