Snake Catcher Lets Cobras Bite Him Every Week to Build Up Venom Immunity
Joe Quililan, a young snake catcher from the Philippines, has been dubbed “Venom Man” for his unusual habit of allowing poisonous snakes to bite him every week and even injecting small quantities of venom into his body in order to boost his resistance to it. 31-year-old Quililan, from Cagayan de Oro City, caught his first […]
Reptile Breeder Spends 8 Years Creating Unique Emoji Pattern Snake
Justin Kobylka, a selective reptile breeder from Georgia, claims that he spent eight years trying to create a snake specimen with detailed smiling emoji patterns. He finally did it, and the result looks as unreal as you can imagine. As a selective breeder, Kobylka specializes in taking relatively common reptile species and creating specimens with striking […]
Man Allegedly Lives with Snake He Thinks Is His Dead Girlfriend Reincarnated
According to a Facebook post that recently went viral, a man devastated by the death of his girlfriend grew very attached to a 10-foot cobra which he believes is his lost partner reincarnated. For the last couple of years, the two have been inseparable, doing everything together, from watching TV to going to the gym. […]
Chinese Couple Raise 3.7-Meter-Long Python as Their Child
An elderly couple in Haikou, China’s Hainan Province, have been sharing their home with a 60 kilogram, 3.7-meter-long python for seven years, raising it as their child and even taking it for walks around their neighborhood. 68-year-old Shi Jimin, a retired meat processing worker, adopted the python in 2009, to save it from certain death. A fish […]
Indonesian Singer Performs for 45 Minutes after King Cobra Bite, Dies on Stage
In a bizarre turn of events, Indonesian singer Irma Bule was bitten by a king cobra while performing on stage last Sunday. She chose to go on with the show, ignoring the enormous risk she was exposing herself to, and ultimately died within the hour. Bule, 29, was a performer of Dangdut – a traditional folk music […]
World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup – How to Turn Slaughtering Thousands of Snakes into a Yearly Festival
For the past 59 years, the residents of Sweetwater, Texas, have been coming together during the second weekend of March to celebrate the ‘World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup’, a four-day event that features the beheading and skinning of thousands of rattlesnakes in front of a live audience. Annual rattlesnake roundups are common in several areas of […]
One-Year-Old Brazilian Boy Bites Venomous Pit Viper to Death
Vipers are usually the ones who do the biting, but a one-year-old boy from Brazil gave the venomous snake a taste of its own medicine, biting it on the head and killing it. 17-month-old Lorenzo was playing with the family dog in the garden of his home, in the town of Mostardas, Brazil’s Rio Grande do […]
Harmless Caterpillar Mimics Menacing Snake Head to Fool Predators
Meet the Dynastor darius darius, a harmless caterpillar with astounding survival skills. In order to avoid being attacked by predators during its pupal stage (when the larvae transform into butterflies or moths), the helpless creature takes on the form of a rather menacing snake! Native to Trinidad, the shape-shifting D. darius often mimics the head of a […]
Fascinating Viper Uses Its Realistic Spider-Shaped Tail to Lure Prey
As if snakes weren’t scary enough on their own, some apparently have spiders for tails to raise the horror factor to infinity . The aptly named ‘spider-tailed viper’ has a bizarre arachnid-shaped appendage that it uses to attract unsuspecting prey. According to science writer Ed Yong, the fearsome snake was formally described only nine years ago, […]
Indian “Snake Man” Charms the World’s Deadliest Snakes
40-year-old wildlife conservationist Vava Suresh has a way with snakes. His life’s mission is to ‘love and guard’ even the most venomous of slithery creatures – he’s already rescued over 30,000 snakes so far. His unique talent and hobby have earned him the nickname ‘Snake Man’; people all over the South Indian state of Kerala […]
World’s Largest Snake Gathering Turns Canadian Wilds into a Slithering Sea
Every spring, the Canadian wilds of Manitoba become a sea of nightmarish writhing snakes. A tangled mass of thousands of red-sided garter snakes come together in what is considered the largest snake-gathering in the world. After spending the long winter months in hibernation, they all come out for a bit of a breather, to frolic […]
Philippines Zoo Offers Adrenaline Junkies Snake Massage from Four Giant Pythons
Everybody loves a good massage, but this snake massage at the Cebu City Zoo in Philippines is really something else. It involves 15 minutes of hardcore action, with four enormous Burmese pythons slithering all over brave participants. According to zoo manager Giovanni Romarate, the free massages are a part of a new theme that encourages […]
Man Claims Diluted Venom Injections Have Made Him Immune to Snake Bites
Tim Friede, an unemployed factory worker and snake enthusiast, is a strong believer in the saying “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”. In an attempt to build immunity to venoms and poisons, he has been injecting himself with diluted venom proteins from some of the deadliest snakes on Earth. He claims that as much […]
Man Self-Injects Snake Venom to Boost Up His Immunity
Steve Ludwin, a 42-year-old snake obsessed rocker from California, is one of a just a handful of people who regularly inject venom from the world’s deadliest snakes into their bloodstream, in the belief that it will make them immune to it. Around 100,000 people around the world die from snake bites every year, and another 250,000 are […]
Conquer Your Fears in China’s Snake Village
Nestled in the heart of a vast farmland in East China’s Zhejiang province, the small village of Zisiqiao has a pretty common look, but it hides a scary secret. The aptly names “snake village” is home to thousands of the most feared snaked species on Earth. Snakes are a vital ingredient in Chinese medicine, and are […]