Officials believe there are as many as one hundred fifty thousand of these large snakes in the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

He walked carefully among the plants, as if he were walking among wild animals or poisonous snakes.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

The sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being crushed to death by sea snakes.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

More than four million people around the world are bitten by snakes each year.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Snakes bite an estimated five and a half million people worldwide each year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

But the snakes are a foreign species, native to Southeast Asia.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The drugs are developed from the venom of poisonous snakes.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Scientists know of about three thousand kinds of snakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Baboons have a fear of snakes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Better to avoid the unstable hammocks altogether, since they're filled with snakes, occasional bears, and flesh-eating plants that, helpfully,feed on mosquitoes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

On this day, a line of 100 people waiting to turn in their cans snakes down the block.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

To the north,the Okefenokee, which is partly in Florida and mostly in neighboring Georgia, is a true swamp, with its own gators and snakes and even beautiful orchids.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The toads have been devastating to Australia's unique wildlife freshwater crocodiles, snakes and marsupials that try to eat the toads have been no match for the toxins they secrete.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07