In addition to having tongues that are half as long as their bodies and generally like armored skunks, pangolins also have a positively cuddly appearance when they swim: This clip was recently uploaded to the Latest Sighting YouTube channel and stars a rescued Temminck’s ground pangolin named Dithlong (or “Ditsi”). Illegal wildlife traffickers captured Ditsi in South Africa’s […]
Gigantic Heath Monitor Takes On Venomous Tiger Snake in a Deadly Encounter
Pictures of a large Western Aᴜsᴛʀᴀʟɪᴀn lizard chowing down on a ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴᴏᴜs tiger snake have surfaced in the state’s South West. Although this ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴᴏᴜs snake is capable of ᴋɪʟʟing an adult human with a single Bɪᴛᴇ, it cannot compete with this hungry lizard. While traveling north of Walpole, Department of Parks and Wildlife officer Janine […]
Giant Olive Python Devours Crocodile Whole in Astonishing Feat
In the global battle between pythons and crocodiles, chalk one up for the snakes. A grisly new series of photos shows an olive python (Liasis olivaceus) scarfing down an Australian freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni). The photos come courtesy GG Wildlife Rescue Inc., a nonprofit in Australia, which shared them on its Facebook page on May 31. The images were taken near […]
Epic Showdown: Black Mamba Snakes Engage in Deadly Battle, Tying Themselves in Knots
As if weaving a friendship bracelet of death, two of the world’s most dangerous snakes, black mambas, can be seen twisting around each other during a rarely videotaped battle in South Africa. The action was recorded by Kirstie Bowers of Johannesburg, South Africa, while she was on safari in Pilanesberg National Park in the country’s North West Province. […]
Incredible Moment: Centipede Emerges from Inside Snake’s Stomach
A group of researchers stumbled upon a grisly scene during a field study in Macedonia last year: a dead nose-horned viper with a centipede’s head sticking out of its ruptured abdomen. After a post-mortem, the scientists think it’s possible that the centipede quite literally eviscerated the snake from the inside out. “All of us were astonished, as nobody has ever seen […]