Their color ranges from brown to black, making them excellent at blending into their surroundings. The African house snake family includes a variety of subspecies, all within the genus Boaedon ...

Living in Australia means you might have to accept coming across a snake or two on your property at some point. But one ...

An animal rescue service in Australia expected to remove four red-bellied snakes from the backyard of a Sydney home. Instead, they uncovered more than 100.

Sure enough, when snake catcher Dylan Cooper arrived at Stein’s house in suburban Sydney a few hours later to help Stein remove the creatures from his yard, the pair discovered a whopping total of 102 ...

Red-bellied black snakes are one of the most common venomous species in Australia but have not caused any human deaths on ...

Scientists Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek made the discovery of this new species, which they named Boaedon broadleyi, or Broadley’s African house snake. The name honors the late Donald ...

The snakes can be venomous to humans and, if bitten, can cause symptoms of swelling, nausea, vomiting, headache, diarrhoea and muscle pain.