This week’s featured creature is fairly common, and it isn’t uncommon for it to venture into residential yards. And because of that, the western rat snake has probably met the business end of a shovel ...

A motorcyclist in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, had a close call with a snake on April 3. The rider was casually driving down the road when a brown rat snake suddenly slithered onto his handlebars mid-ride ...