With the holiday season around the corner, the coastal city of Durban in South Africa is gearing up for its annual influx of ...

'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 ...

A South African pilot is being praised for keeping his cool after he discovered a most unwelcome passenger midflight: a Cape cobra. Pilot Rudolf Erasmus was piloting a Beechcraft Baron 58 with four ...

Clerks at a South African post office fled for safety when they emptied a mail bag and a white python came slithering out. The one metre long non-venomous snake was one of four sent this week in an ...

Cape cobras, like the one pictured here, are highly venomous. In a moment straight out of the 2006 blockbuster “Snakes on a Plane,” a South African pilot said he found a deadly cobra in his cockpit.

THE indigenous fauna of South Africa was, a century ago, richer in genera and species than that in any other part of the globe. To-day the mammals have largely disappeared, — ruthlessly obliterated, — ...

Snakes on a Plane is an infamous Samuel L. Jackson movie from the mid-aughts. It’s also what one South African pilot came face to face with this week. When flying on Monday, Rudolf Erasmus encountered ...

'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 ...