A kayaker had an up close and personal encounter with a cottonmouth on the river that'd probably send most people paddling for their lives. While the snake doesn't swim right up to him, it does get pretty close before falling back and swimming after him for several seconds. We're pretty sure ...

This giant reticulated python doesn't take its reputation as Indonesia's biggest and deadliest predator lightly. Capable of growing to almost 33-feet-long, it takes a lot to fill this monster up. Unfortunately, a nearby deer just became its main choice for dinner. Once it sneaks up on the ...

It looks like University High School in Orange City, Florida, needs to offer some common sense courses after a student was bitten by a coral snake he took to school. The 19-year-old student apparently found the snake and took it to the courtyard of the school, where the venomous snake bit ...

It's no secret that mongooses are basically cobra killing machines. You wouldn't know it by looking at them, but these little guys are vicious hunters and a cobra's worst nightmare. From the instant the fight starts, it looks like the mongoose has the cobra on the ropes. While the cobra may look ...

It's not every day you walk outside to discover a fight to the death between two large snakes outside your home. That's exactly the situation that Liz Williams discovered outside her home in Victoria, Australia, when she spotted an eastern brown snake and a tiger snake in a brutal fight. The ...

An Australian man had one heck of a hitchhiking experience when a snake crawled around to his drivers side window and started tapping on it. “It was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in,” said Ted Ogier, the man who was driving. Ogier was ...

Living on a ranch can come with all sorts of daily surprises. If you haven't seen something, chances are you will — eventually — no matter how bizarre. William Tedrick found out just how bizarre things can get while cleaning a house on his ranch. The house had been vacant for several years, but ...

As far as venomous snakes are concerned, none of them produce particularly pleasant effects once they bite their victims. We all know different snake venom is deadly for different reasons, but seeing exactly what this particular snakes venom does to blood is terrifying. This clip from an older ...

It becomes more obvious almost every day that common sense isn't always so common. Case in point: this woman who grabs a cottonmouth off the side of the road and gets immediately bitten. It's hard to imagine what caused this woman to pick up a random poisonous snake on the side of the road. ...

As far as bizarre stories go, this one is pretty high on the list. Like many parts of the country, Montana experienced a very dry summer that put a lot of strain on firefighters with fires that kept popping up and getting out of hand. People and lightning are the fairly common causes of ...

A rattle in Amanda Friedrick's yard had her and her husband concerned they may have a loose pipe. When they investigated, they discovered something much more terrifying -- a mother rattlesnake and 18 babies in and around their children's playhouse. "It was really scary," Friedrick said. "Our ...

Snakes can be incredibly hard to catch. That's partly because they can be elusive and the fact that not a lot of people like dealing with them. This young woman makes an effective trap with an electric fan guard. It makes catching a snake as easy as cutting a plastic bottle and digging a shallow ...

Possessing an aggressive nature and a deadly bite, it's easy to see why you never want to run into a puff adder. This slow motion clip shows just how quickly a puff adder can go from stationary to sinking its fangs into your flesh. Luckily for everyone, the only casualty from this encounter was a ...

Marvin Muller and Tiffany Corlis captured some incredible pictures and video after stumbling across a fight between a massive snake and a crocodile at Lake Moondarra near Mount Isa in northwest Queensland, Australia. "Pretty cool experience, not something you think you're going to see but I ...