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Red blood python (Python brongersmai): Muscular snake with striking colours and unique features

The blood python (Python brongersmai), also called the red blood python, is a striking, non-venomous constrictor snake native to Southeast Asia. Recognised for its muscular build and vivid colouration ...

Inside the 'World’s largest snake den': 100,000 red-sided garter snakes huddle beneath Manitoba

Every spring in Manitoba, up to 100000 red sided garter snakes emerge from underground limestone dens, forming swirling mating balls. Why do they gather here in such astonishing numbers?

Would you visit a place where 100,000 snakes emerge at once? Here’s why it’s one of the world’s strangest wildlife spectacles

Tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes emerge annually from underground dens in Manitoba's Narcisse Snake Dens for mating. Following a severe population decline due to highway deaths, ...

‘She’s bigger than I thought!’ Hunter catches monster 202-pound python — 2nd heaviest in Florida history

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

Python drags hunter 15 feet over ant hill; ‘like riding a slow horse’

Python hunter Carl Jackson needed family assistance to uncoil the snake from his body and subdue the second-heaviest python ever caught in Florida.
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Snakes alive! 102 venomous red-bellied reptiles found in Australian man’s backyard

SYDNEY — This will make you shudder. An Australian man thought there were six venomous red-bellied black snakes slithering in a pile of mulch in his backyard. Instead, there were 102 of them -- ...