Texas Game Wardens and deputies got more than they bargained for when a landlord in Cameron, Texas called to complain a tenant had several venomous snakes in his apartment near a middle school.

The reptile, whose name in Hebrew is Land of Israel Viper, lives in the Jewish state, the West Bank, parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (JTA) — Israel declared as its national snake a species ...

A Wilmington, North Carolina, man has been released from the hospital after surviving a bite from a Gaboon viper, one of the most venomous snakes on the planet. The man was caring for the snake in ...