The African rock python is not a snake that often dominates headlines, yet it remains one of the most impressive reptiles found anywhere in Africa. Stretching across much of sub-Saharan Africa, this ...

Finding a snake in the bathroom is unsettling enough. Finding one coiled inside a toilet bowl — only to watch it slip back into the plumbing — is the kind of encounter that ca ...

Snakes often end up sharing the same reputation in popular culture, yet many species have evolved in remarkably different ways. The boomslang and the black mamba are good examples. Both are native to ...

South African snake catcher Samantha Cummings was waiting outside a house in sweltering weather during a black mamba search she expected would come up empty. Instead, the highly v ...

When a homeowner in Queensburgh, a suburb of Durban, South Africa, saw a thin snake sliding past him in his garage, he called snake rescuer Nick Evans. The snake turned out to be a young black mamba ...