"Snakes" Is Off and Slinking
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If   blogger Stephanie Wasek's assessment is on the money, Snakes on a   Plane might be taking in the money at the weekend box office.
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.
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PATTAYA, Thailand - A Thai snake charmer kissed 19 highly poisonous king cobras in an attempt to set a world record.
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SYDNEY : Hundreds of snakes and at least three crocodiles were seized in a raid on a suburban Australian house, wildlife authorities said on Sunday.
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Sharks are like vultures. They symbolize the unsympathetic brutality of nature, circling their prey in a ritual of impending doom.
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HOUSTON - In a case of life imitating art, a Houston movie theater has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake spotted by a maintenance worker.    Among the movies playing at the 16-screen Tinseltown theater is the horror-thriller "Anacondas."   Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc., said the worker saw a snake about a week ago that he described as thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall...
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WASHINGTON -- Guam's tropical forests are silent. The rattling, screeching, and cawing of the island's native birds have been erased by the brown tree snake, a devastating predator accidentally introduced to the island shortly after World War II.
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A toad-eating Asian snake stores up toxins from its amphibian meals&#8212;and then tempts predators to attack, new research shows.
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With monitor lizards, snakes, and  bats prowling their parks, residents of tropical Singapore are  no strangers to the occasional animal ambush.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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Police say they're sure they shot a four-foot-long, 80-pound monitor lizard that had been lurking in an Orlando suburb for months. Still, neighbors aren't ready to let their children or pets back outside until they see a carcass.
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  May 29--WESTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY, Near Cheney -- On the banks of the Ninnescah, Don Distler walks near the river, noting the signs of wildlife -- and sometimes the lack of it.
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In Los Angeles, a drought has increased business for people who enjoy removing snakes from the property of others.
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By Associated Press  Stingrays are strange-looking but normally shy creatures whose defenses include poisonous, serrated barbs in their tails.
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NEW YORK - Firefighters responding to a burning New York City home found more than smoke and flames. Inside a set of plastic containers, they discovered five poisonous snakes.
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RAYVILLE, La. - The chief deputy of Richland Parish didn't just capture the 8-foot snake that had stopped highway traffic. He recognized it. That let Chief Deputy Terry Thompson reunite the one-eyed boa constrictor with its owner, who had lost it when he moved to Rayville in March.
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Animal Planet has a new snake in the grass. And his name is Austin Stevens. The keepers at the cable network are billing Stevens aka the "Snakemaster" and his new show as the slithery descendant to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, but the South African snake wrangler doesn't even know Irwin by name.