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Snake slithers into woman's SUV, sheds skin and escapes capture

Edit Springfield News-Sun 10 Jun 2016
A Texas teacher has left her SUV parked in the same spot for days after she found a 2.5-foot rat snake slithering through it earlier this week ... Animal control officer Humberto Vega responded to the scene and attempted to wrangle the irritated snake....

Chinese town goes into snake killing frenzy after woman releases 900...

Edit Topix 10 Jun 2016
A VILLAGE in China faced an 'infestation' of snakes after a woman released some 900 serpents back into the wild in a nearby mountain area. The woman from Nanjing had reportedly released the snakes in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, as an act of religious devotion called "fang sheng", a Buddhist ritual of atonement that encourages believers to release captive animals back into nature, Shanghaiist reported ... ....

Denton teacher finds rat snake hanging out in her SUV

Edit The Dallas Morning News 10 Jun 2016
“When I opened the passenger door to get something out, I saw the snake sitting right on the flood board,” said Williams ... Animal Control Officer Humberto Vega arrived and said he began searching the car for about an hour before finding the about 2.5 foot rat snake inside, possibly after it had been in the vehicle for days ... Snake safety. As the weather warms up, more snakes are coming out of brumation, similar to hibernation....

Sea snakes have extra sense for water living (The University of Adelaide)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
The move from life on land to life in the sea has led to the evolution of a new sense for sea snakes, a University of Adelaide-led study suggests. The international team, led by researchers in the University's School of Biological Sciences, studied tiny and poorly understood structures on the heads of snakes called 'scale sensilla' ... Although they can also see, little is known about the underwater sensory perception of the snakes....

Denton Teacher Finds Snake Riding Shotgun in SUV

Edit NBC News 10 Jun 2016
Animal control worked for 2 hours to get the 2.5 foot long rat snake out of Philana Williams’s SUV, but the animal shed its skin and hid deeper inside where it likely is still slithering around. Photo Credit. Ali West, Denton Record Chronicle ... ....

'America's Snake' highlights our ambivalent relationship to nature

Edit The Providence Journal 10 Jun 2016
Author Ted Levin looks at the origins of our fear of snakes, as well as what we owe to them ... ....

News24.com | Snake oil voices

Edit News24 10 Jun 2016
So… Controversial “snake pastor,” Penuel Mnguni, has been at it again. He claims God has spoken to him. Again ... ....

Texas rat snake

Edit Journal News 10 Jun 2016
Texas rat snake ... ....

Snake pastor sent packing after antics

Edit Independent online (SA) 10 Jun 2016
Controversial Pastor Penuel Mnguni has been kicked out of the Mpumalanga community hall where he drove over, jumped onto and hit congregants during a conference ... ....

Kara Ross debuts her second Diamonds Unleashed collection on HSN

Edit The Examiner 10 Jun 2016
"My Summer 2016 Diamonds Unleashed collection for HSN includes 19 pieces of extremely wearable and interchangeable pieces ... the twisted Metal Cuff (whose medallion coin can be flipped and interchanged), the white diamond 1970's inspired medallion pendant, the Snake Bangle, which was inspired by a vintage snake watch and the coiled Snake Ring, which matches the bangle where each of those pieces feature black enamel scales." ... ....

Cadets sharpen shooting skill

Edit The Hindu 10 Jun 2016
V ... Apart from regular camp activities, the cadets were also taught about fire fighting, army field and platoon battle demonstrations, snake bite presentation and methodologies to rescue people bitten by poisonous snakes. ....

‘Conan Exiles’ Early Access Dated, Devs Talk Religion, Purges, Combat, And More

Edit Inquisitr 10 Jun 2016
Funcom released the first Conan Exiles gameplay trailer earlier Thursday and has now followed up with a planned Steam Early Access release date ... Pricing has not been announced yet ... Religion ... For example, Set worshippers will gain poison resistance and snake arrows at the cost not being able to kill snakes ... The example provided by Funcom was a giant snake will wreck what you own if you stop sacrificing people to Set ... Purge System ... Combat....

Snowmelt and Runoff doing “Quadruple Duty” (California Rice Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
With a full four years of 'drought management' at the forefront, I've been thinking about our recognition of the 'triple duty' water in the Sacramento River does for humans and the environment-providing (1) water for fish, (2) water in wetlands and ricelands for birds and other wetland-dependent species like Giant Garter Snakes, and (3) water ......
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