• Which snakes once won a battle for humans?
  Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, ordered jars of live snakes to be ...

• What is a front-fanged snake?
  It's a snake with a poisonous bite. The poison is made in glands, ...

• How do you milk a snake?
  Milking a snake means taking venom from it. This is a job for an ...

• What was a snake doing in the Garden of Eden?
  The snake in the Garden of Eden is supposed to have tempted Eve, the ...

• How do snake charmers charm snakes?
  Snake charmers in India keep cobras or other very poisonous snakes in ...

• What is “a snake in the grass”? The phrase “a snake in the grass”
  means a hidden enemy. It was first used in Roman times, when people ...

• How do some snakes play possum?
  When they are caught, or badly frightened, some snakes pretend to be ...

• How many people do reptiles kill every year?
  Poisonous snakes bite large numbers of people every year, though ...

• How many reptiles do people kill every year?
  It's not possible to say, but we are more dangerous to reptiles than ...

• Which reptiles are valued for their skin?
  Many reptiles have been hunted to the brink of extinction for their ...