Category: Snake Information & News

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Georgia Officials Asked To End Rattlesnake Roundups

Georgia Officials Asked To End Rattlesnake Roundups

Conservation groups ask state officials to enforce existing laws. [...]

November 2011 Editor's Note

An In-Depth Look at West Indian Epicrates [...]

Comment Period For Snake Ban Extended

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the comment period for the proposed constrictor snake ban. [...]
World’s Longest Snake Dies

World’s Longest Snake Dies

Fluffy, the world's longest snake on record, passed away at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. [...]

H.R. 511 Snake Ban

Congressman proposes H.R. 511, a ban on large constrictor snakes. [...]
New Insights Into How Snakes Kill

New Insights Into How Snakes Kill

Physical properties of venom aid its effectiveness. [...]
Snake Venom Pioneer Bill Haast Dead At 100

Snake Venom Pioneer Bill Haast Dead At 100

Haast was first bitten by a venomous snake at 11 years old [...]
Nine Foot Boa Constrictor Captured By Pig Hunters In Hawaii

Nine Foot Boa Constrictor Captured By Pig Hunters In Hawaii

A group of hunters out for a 4th of July hunt targeting pigs near O'ahu, Hawaii's Waiawa Correctional Facility in Honolulu captured a boa constrictor [...]
Texas Herper Jeremy Weaver Releases TX Snakes 1.1 For IOS

Texas Herper Jeremy Weaver Releases TX Snakes 1.1 For IOS

Snake ID Application Helps in Identifying the Many Snakes of the Lone Star State [...]

Four Large Pythons Rescued From Man’s Northern Arizona Home

Animal Planet show calls Phoenix Herpetological Society to persuade owner to part with his sick reptiles [...]

Copperhead Snake Reproduces Via Parthenogenesis

Agkistrodon contortrix collected in 1998 and kept in isolation gives birth three years later [...]
Exo Terra Donation Enables PHS to Build Venom Room

Exo Terra Donation Enables PHS to Build Venom Room

Tours of venom room to begin week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 19-26, 2011 [...]

Burmese Python Study May Lead To Potential Heart Disease Cures

Python molurus bivittatus produces fatty acids that would damage a human heart, but one day may cure human heart disease [...]

Justin Bieber Auctions His Pet Boa Constrictor

The auction of Johnson will benefit Pencils of Promise and closes Nov. 29. [...]

USARK Urges Herpers In Ohio To Say No To House Bill 352

Bill would ban all exotic animals, including constricting snakes, venomous snakes and crocodilians. [...]
Snakes On A Plane

Snakes On A Plane

Snakes on a Plane filmakers speak with REPTILES magazine. [...]

Python Ban HR 2811 UPDATE

House Judiciary Committee to hear python ban bill. [...]

Python Bill HR 2811 Passes Committee

House Judiciary Committee amends and passes python bill. [...]

Python Ban On Fox News

Marshall Meyers of PIJAC appeared on Fox News talking about the proposed Python Import ban. [...]

New USGS Snake Report

New USGS report claims ecological risks are associated with nine non-native boa, anaconda and python species in the United States. [...]
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