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Professional python hunters Guillermo Tapanes and Matt Kogo spotted something strange swimming in a remote pond on the border of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
Python’s Kiss, Louise Erdrich (March 24) Advertisement A girl’s brush with a python’s tongue bestows the power to discern adult motivations.
—Hamilton Cain, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
Ronquillo said the python’s location made the situation especially dangerous because it was concealed deep inside an areca palm that sat directly next to a home.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Zoo Miami plans to take multiple Seaquarium reptiles, including a bearded dragon, a python and two black-and-white tegus.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
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The Cape coral cobra (Aspidelaps lubricus) and the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), act in a more stealthy fashion.—
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Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.—
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The project starts to unravel when life imitates art and a real anaconda begins hunting them down.—
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This time around, an anaconda is being experimented on in a secret facility in Romania using blood orchids (the mythical flower from the previous movie).—
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The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is even the official state reptile.—
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No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice.—
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The show featured other Minter heroes, including Jane Fonda giving the finger and two large-scale odalisques: Padma Lakshmi, in a bra and a boa, eating oranges, and Lizzo, in a corset, holding an iPhone.—
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At the New York premiere of her upcoming film, , Sweeney arrived alongside co-star Amanda Seyfried wearing a low-cut, glitzy silver Miu Miu floor-length gown, finished with a dramatic feather boa.—
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For example, an adult black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), one of the planet’s deadliest elapids, regularly grows upwards of 10 feet long.—
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Powell County paramedic Eddie Barnes and one of his team members were called to the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in May after the zoo’s co-director, James Harrison, was bitten by a poisonous mamba snake, local news outlet LEX 18 reported.—
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Birkenstock Buckley Moc Clog A shoe with a moccasin-like feel, the Birkenstock Buckley Moc Clog is comfortable and so easy to slip on and off.—
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The concepts are getting more adventurous, too, with brands like Asics experimenting with technical leather sneakers and New Balance readying moccasin-like mash-ups.—
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Rather than allowing herself to be captured by the Romans, legend has it that Cleopatra let a poisonous asp bite her in Alexandria, according to the documentary.—
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Among the caterpillars Walker has studied are puss, or asp, caterpillars, whose stings can be excruciating.—
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In the last century, the giant garter snake’s population has declined by more than 90%, the governor’s announcement declared.—
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Senate Bill 765, sponsored by GOP Senator Roger Niell, names the giant garter snake () as the state snake.—
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“Python.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/python. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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