An image of a snake entwined with a tree as a forest fire burns in the background has won first place in the British Ecological Society photography competition. The picture was taken in a forest close ...

A family in South Africa who had finished decorating their Christmas tree hours earlier had a terrifying unexpected visitor, when a ‘venomous boomslang’ snake slithered out of their tree in between ...

There's usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no ...

'Twas not yet the night before Christmas, but there was a creature stirring in a certain house in South Africa: one of the most poisonous snakes in the country. The Wild family in Robertson, South ...

There’s usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no ...