Shaiunna Hare, a 2-year-old girl in Florida, was strangled in her bed by a more than 8-feet long Burmese python. The pet python belonged to her mother's boyfriend, Charles Jason Darnell, who tried to save the girl by stabbing the snake until he could pry her away.Darnell had...
created by cyn.khoo | 18 wks ago 1832 views | 3 recommendations | 2 comments
In Latin American culture, the quinceaños (15th birthday) is a pretty big deal: the quinceañera is queen for a day, and family and friends get together celebrate her coming of age. From what I saw in a local...
created by jordan | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 150 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
What would you do, if a 13' hungry python wrapped itself around you, then literally dragged you up a tree? This is exactly what happened to Kenyan farm worker Ben Nyaumbe, living in the Malindi area of Kenya....
opinion by Swan | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 1058 views | 40 recommendations | 9 comments
" A woman was killed by her pet snake, investigators believe. Police believe Amanda Ruth Black, 25, was trying to give medication to her about 13’ long reticulated tiger python Tuesday evening. ...
A true killer, wrapping the prey and crushing the prey to death and swallow its dead human prey from head to toe." The university biology student had broken the park's rules by entering the cage holding the...
created by renovatio | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 3028 views | 12 recommendations | 41 comments
"Luckily for them that 2.7-meter-long pythons are not very obedient" I think lucky for the man the snake didn't turn around and attack him instead. This guy seems crazy, threatening everyone with retiles. "Police...
Australian residents found that a python awaited them in their toilet bowl. The python is 1.8 meter (nearly six feet) long, and is discovered in a highrise apartment in Australia's northern tropical city of...
created by Heiky | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 689 views | 2 recommendations | 10 comments
"This parrot is deceased A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Some 55 million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the "Norwegian...
created by agdobson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 59 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Google last night launched a preview of its App Engine web application hosting service.App Engine provides a back-end platform, including a distributed Web server, database and storage, to run apps written with...
created by pgaliba | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 310 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
A family's pet Chihuahua was devoured by a 16.5ft python earlier this week, as the family of the beloved dog could do nothing but look on in shock. The python had apparently been stalking the dog for a few days...
created by amyjudd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2731 views | 2 recommendations | 12 comments
UPDATE: Check out the amazing photoset of people clip-clopping their way to coconut orchestra superstardom. Thanks, everyone! I am a huge Python fan; the influence they had on my early thinking and...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1241 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
For this commentator, the real story lies in the villagers' not killing the snake for the crime of simply being a snake. Like the song sort of says, "My (Shedding) Skin is My Sin"."Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match - a 7.1-metre long...
created by jordan | 2 years ago 303 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are.
My best friend, Olivia, and I met in a fiction-writing class almost 20 years ago. We bonded in an instant during...
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