The West Coast Reptile Education Society snake is likely between three and five years old, and underweight. 

Researchers are calling the new snake Trimeresurus salazar, but its common name is Salazar's pit viper.

Saint Patrick supposedly drove all the snakes out of Ireland some 1,500 years ago.

Vets in Australia say the python and the towel both "lived to see another day."

The house was occupied exclusively by 140 snakes, including the python that was found around the woman's neck in Indiana.

The 3.5-foot snake has been relocated to the Indian River Reptile and Dinosaur Park.

The Lincoln County Humane Society says the snake was loose on the lawn of a business.

On Tuesday, officials thought they were reuniting a ball python found in a sewer with its family. But after a night in another snake's digs, it was quickly determined the python was an impostor.

Police officers were waved down by a person who pointed to the sewer where the tail of the snake was poking out.

The zoo says it was contacted by the Ontario Poison Centre on June 7 and asked to help a woman who needed treatment after being bitten by a Malayan pit viper.