Today in "just because you can do something doesn't mean you should," it's the Rattlesnake Rodeo—or, more accurately, the Rattlesnake Pile of Snakes Just Kind of Lying There—in Opp, Alabama. The annual event includes snake races, snake handling, snake milking, and snake touching. » 4/15/14 2:30pm 4/15/14 2:30pm

New York designer Camille Zarsky makes python-skin handbags. She imports her materials from Europe, but she'd like to start sourcing a little closer to home, and she suspects she could even do a bit of ecological good—by making her products out of Florida pythons, Fast Company reports. » 1/07/14 1:10pm 1/07/14 1:10pm

I don't own anything nearly this fancy. » 10/07/13 6:40pm 10/07/13 6:40pm

I guess the snake never carpooled to high school with a slightly older snake who informed it knowingly, over the chorus of Sublime's "What I Got," to "act like you're totally into it and NEVER use your teeth. Oh and this is sooo awkward but you owe me gas money." » 7/14/13 5:00pm 7/14/13 5:00pm

Let’s start here: fucking Florida. What a wet, wild, and all around icky place it is, you know? Florida is basically a big swamp surrounded by sand and populated almost exclusively with retired people, drug lords, rednecks, and dangerous exotic animals that entrepreneurial Floridians have decided to import into the… » 4/15/13 9:15pm 4/15/13 9:15pm

An earnest 17-year-old intern recently attended an Appropriations Committee hearing at the Connecticut state Capitol to testify about a program that helped her come out of her shell and get over her fear of snakes. » 3/01/13 2:30pm 3/01/13 2:30pm

So remember that part in Jurassic Park after the brachiosaurus sneezed on the girl, when Sam Neill discovers that even though all the dinosaurs are female, they are somehow reproducing? Well now, your favorite snake, the copperhead viper IS DOING THAT SHIT FOR REAL. An ecologist at the University of Tulsa has confirmed … » 9/13/12 2:20pm 9/13/12 2:20pm

Spiders are creepy! I mean, they are kind of neat, but mostly they cause people to scurry away in fear and sometimes even emit high-pitched shrieks. Well, if you are one of the people who can't stand those little multi-legged crawlers, you might be in luck. A new study has found that it is possible to turn people from… » 5/21/12 9:15pm 5/21/12 9:15pm

Unlike many people her age, the amazing Dame Judi Dench, who's 76, is not thinking about retiring: » 11/13/11 4:35pm 11/13/11 4:35pm

If you had 25 quick-breeding Australian flying squirrels in your living room, you might feel a little overwhelmed. Which is why Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation decided to hold an Exotic Pet Amnesty Day, where owners of such squirrels as well as pythons, boas, turtles, geckos, and giant chameleons could turn in … » 11/07/11 7:15pm 11/07/11 7:15pm

Imagine if you got pregnant a couple of years after having sex with a dude? Imagine if you got pregnant without ever having sex? An eastern diamond rattlesnake recently gave birth five years after mating. She just stored the sperm until she felt like it was the right time. Even crazier, a female copperhead snake that… » 10/18/11 7:00pm 10/18/11 7:00pm

Today's Worst Dad Award goes to Australian "Snakeman" Raymond Hoser, who let two poisonous snakes, a taipan and a death adder, bite his daughter to prove they were de-venomized and safe. Apparently this demonstration was intended as a response to charges that he had breached his Commercial Wildlife Demonstrator License,… » 8/09/11 1:57pm 8/09/11 1:57pm

An Idaho man is trying to sell his snake-invested house. In this difficult real estate market, his chances of finding a buyer are slim, but then again, "there are people who love snakes." There are also speakers of Parseltongue. » 1/23/11 2:55pm 1/23/11 2:55pm

Plenty of Hollywood stars voluntarily inject toxic substances into their faces to stave off wrinkles (Botox is a mild form of a very harmful toxin). But you should put the latest idea on your Definitely Don't Do-it-Yourself list. » 6/11/10 2:20pm 6/11/10 2:20pm

[Leatherhead, U.K., March 26. Image via Getty] » 3/26/10 7:15pm 3/26/10 7:15pm

Today we got a press release that read, "A woman's greatest fears are rejection and abandonment." This woman disagrees. » 3/04/10 1:40pm 3/04/10 1:40pm

Wow: After a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to her door an bit her on the hand, 87-year-old Esther Orring strangled it with her bare hands. She has been treated with anti-venom and is recovering in the hospital. [NBC Miami] » 8/13/09 10:40am 8/13/09 10:40am

The clip above is a PSA about the trauma of sexual abuse and the importance of treating victims to help them get over that trauma. It effectively conveys the haunting creepiness that abuse victims feel, with its use of a (vaguely NSFW) slithery, fleshy, snake-like thing that sorta looks like a cross between an arm… » 3/18/08 7:00pm 3/18/08 7:00pm