Reptiles

"Don't leave shoes outside," said snake catcher Gunter Glaser.

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The eastern hognose is seen writhing dramatically, before lying belly-up on the ground, with its mouth open and its tongue lolling to the side.

"The door was still latching and since we do not always lock the dead bolt we were not sure how long it had been there," Cassie Catchot told Newsweek.

The Cambodian man had been coaxing a crocodile out a cage when it grabbed his stick and pulled him into an enclosure.

"It's the largest alligator that has been captured in Miami Dade county in quite a few years," Pesky Critters told Newsweek.

"Before he could figure out what to do the snake crawled under the floor," a snake catcher told Newsweek.

The creature is being tracked as it's one of the most northernmost American crocodiles—a species that in the United States, is only found in parts of Florida.

This was the second incident of a snake being found in a car in The Village, Oklahoma, this week.

"I went to put in my foot and he stuck his head out for a second," Jeffrey Tucker said.

"I was scared. I'm not a reptile fan," John Riddle said, after he found the angry reptile thrashing around in his toilet bowl.

"We've been seeing a lot of baby rat snakes around our little ranch lately, and I'm pretty sure we just met their mother," Jon D. Bumpus told Newsweek.

"You never know what kind of creatures and critters lurk in the night," Clearwater Police Department said after the officer singlehandedly removed the snake.

Nature enthusiast John McCombie said the encounter with the snake will "go down in the history books."

Officers said they used lessons learned from watching the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on TV to capture the creature.

This was one of the biggest eastern browns the snake catcher had encountered in the area.

The snake was identified as an eastern copperhead, a venomous species of pit viper found across eastern portions of North America.

His neighbor "was not a fan" of snakes, so his neighbor volunteered to help get them out.

The black mamba is a large snake native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa known for its size, speed and extremely potent venom.

The reptile was spotted in the waters off Dauphin Island in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The smallest was maybe 10 to 12 inches but the two larger ones were at least 24 inches," Ben Morgan told Newsweek.

"The sun's out and so are cold-blooded critters," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

Police deputies "arrived to find that the hawk was being strangled by a snake," the Alachua County sheriff said. "Death for the hawk was imminent."

Mike Kimmel, known as the Python Cowboy, caught the Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, where these animals are an invasive species.

"They saw the long tail of the alligator and followed it through the pipes," city officials said.

The snake had wedged itself behind the front wheel of a car and had to be dragged out by a local snake catcher to be released back into the wild.

After working and saving for years to buy a home, a Colorado woman found that she was potentially living over a den of snakes.

The venom of cobras "can cause paralysis and even death if not treated promptly," the Wildlife & Nature Conservation Trust said.

"It was perfectly camouflaged in the dead leaves and dappled sunlight," Oklahoma mom, Valerie Fischer, told Newsweek.

"I opened the bag that catches all the dust and it was inside there," snake catcher Drew Godfrey told Newsweek.