Shortly after a man killed a rattlesnake in his backyard, the rattlesnake's severed head bit and injected venom into the man, seriously injuring him, according to news reports. The zombie-like ...

The first bite felt like a bee sting. Susan Conlin O’Neil was walking home from dinner to her Hilton Head Island condo Wednesday night when she took a step down on the sidewalk and felt a pang in her ...

Many of us have made the ill-advised choice of donning a full-head mask on Halloween or other costumed affairs. Sure, it’s convenient to slip on a rubberized helmet to instantly transform into, say, ...

It’s that time of year when snakes begin emerging, like the eastern hognose snake, who has an incredible zombie defense ...

A hissing sound from the kitchen is usually a sign of a gas leak or a faulty faucet. But, for a woman in Sydney, Australia, the suspicious sound came from a perhaps more unsettling source. When she ...

Firefighters had to cut a boa constrictor’s head off with a pocketknife Thursday after it wrapped itself around a woman’s neck and bit her nose. The woman, who has 11 snakes, was reportedly lying in ...