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Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was a snake-handling pastor who believed that the serpents wouldn't hurt him ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360. In 1958, the Sweetwater Jaycees, of Nolan County, Texas, had trouble killing the 3,000 western diamondbacks captured for the group’s first ...

This video captures the intense moment a venomous snake training session suddenly went wrong. A routine practice turns ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, 42, was a pastor in Kentucky and starred in National Geographic's "Snake Salvation" ...

Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a group of Pentecostals in Appalachia who handle snakes in church to prove their faith in God. The story got us thinking: Why are the handlers bitten so rarely, and why ...

A South Carolina school teacher is currently fighting for his life at the hospital after being bitten by a venomous snake last week. The Florence resident, identified by WBTW as Jeffrey Leibowitz, ...

A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, removing a coastal carpet python that he found inches away from a pet bird, In a Facebook post, Stuart McKenzie, a professional snake catcher ...

The snake-handling prowess of two Central Texas men soon will be highlighted on a reality show on the Animal Planet television network. A pilot episode of “Rattlesnake Republic” aired this summer.

Nobody charms snakes like professional politicians, but it's rare to see them work their magic on stage. The God Fearin' Snake Handlers, a three-year-old Ashland band made up largely of members of the ...

An employee has answered the desperate call of a Mid-North Coast supermarket owner to remove a deadly snake that emptied her busy store.