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N.H. Woman reaches for mail, finds 3-foot-long snake

AP — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:57:35 +0000

A Londonderry, New Hampshire, woman got more than she bargained for when she opened her mailbox this week. A 3-foot-long snake was inside.

Police say Conn. man urged snake to 'get' officers

AP — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:57 +0000

Police in Bridgeport, Conn., say they arrested a man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them, 9-foot-long pythons aren’t very obedient.

Man orders pet python to attack police officers

AP — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:20:35 +0000

Bridgeport police say they arrested a city man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them that 9-foot-long pythons aren’t very obedient.

Mom in NY finds snake in crib, coiled around baby's leg

AP — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:38:15 +0000

A woman who awoke to her baby’s cries was shocked to peer into the crib and find a foot-long snake wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter’s leg.

Mom finds snake coiled on baby's leg in crib

AP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:51:32 +0000

A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter’s leg as the baby slept in a...

Packaged pythons cause scare at German post office

AP — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:00:14 +0000

A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of...

Legless lizard found in Brazil may be new species

Aneez — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:17:16 +0000

Scientists have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil, a wildlife conservation group said on...

In pursuit of happiness

Michael Kerjman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:10:32 +0000

Living is a mixture of differences in any particular timing and, while depending on general global environment of which politics is a substantial constituent, leaves rooms for something really personal and intimate anyone pursues for...

7-Foot Python Hitches Ride in Manila

AP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:00:10 +0000

Commuters in the Philippine capital got a shock when they found an unwelcome passenger on their minibus: a 7-foot-long python.

Snake Surprises Md. Woman Watching TV

AP — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:56:50 +0000

Anne Arundel County police say a Glen Burnie woman was surprised by a three-foot python that slithered out from behind her media stand while she watched television in her living...