Golden-Crowned Snake
A related species is the Dwarf Crowned Snake, Cacophis krefftii, which is much smaller (25 cm), with a dark-grey to black body and a cream to yellow hood over the nape of its neck. This species ranges from the ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Snake House
The original McAfee home still survives. It??s a simple slab hut constructed from hand-split local hardwood. The hut, which has been heritage-listed, has just three rooms. The McAfee family lived in the hut with ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Yellow-Faced Whip Snake
It is pale grey to brown in colour, with reddish colouring on the head, and sometimes on the tail as well. The belly is grey-green to yellowish. A dark comma-shaped streak runs from the eye to the corner of the mouth ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Fangs Of Deadly Venomous Snakes
There is, however, one problem with evolving fangs from grooved teeth and that is hollow fangs always occur in the front part of the jaw whereas grooved teeth, or fangs, are only know to occur on the rear part of the ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Betsy Hearne
In Her Own Words... "I grew up in an Alabama pine forest with no one to play with except a dog, cat, horse, cow, alligator, raccoon, possum, owl, and garter snake. None of them talked much. They were pretty good ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger, the author of Angry White Pyjamas and Big Snake, was born in 1964 and educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize. In 1991 he went to Japan, studied traditional martial arts, and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Snake Bites
If the bite is on a limb, a broad bandage or torn strips of clothing or pantyhose should be applied over the bitten area at moderate pressure (as tight as you would do it for an ankle injury; not so tight that circulation is stopped), then ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Sally Wern Comport
Kids will be kids--even when they live in the White House! From Tad Lincoln (secretly called a "tyrant" ) to the Roosevelt gang (who kept a pet badger, a rat, dogs, snakes, horses, parrots, and a one-legged chicken!) ... [... more]
Random House |
Lisa Weinerman
From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's ... [... more]
Random House |
Irini Spanidou
Irini Spanidou's highly praised first novel, God's Snake, introduced a writer of rare perception and a character, Anna Karystinou, with whom readers fell in love. In Fear, the author returns to Anna as she comes of ... [... more]
Random House |
Stir Fried Pork With Snake Beans And Curry Paste
Stir Fried Pork with Snake Beans and Curry Paste [... more]
Australian Womens Weekly |
Sewer Cameras - State-Of-The-Art-High-Tech Equipment
Before the advent of this device, plumbers would run a snake (sewer rod) until it just got stuck. They would pull the snake out and "pace it off" hoping to come within a few feet of the broken line. This hit and miss tactic was not only time ... [... more]
Master Plumbers |
