Charlie Jackson and Jason Cobb disappeared in the 'wet and stormy' early hours of Saturday morning

As three-year-old Kyle Cumming slept peacefully in his Queensland home, a clutch of wild eggs he had discovered in his backyard were incubating in his wardrobe.

A 12-year-old boy was bitten by a crocodile yesterday in Australia and dragged out to deeper water.

Ever feel so hungry you could eat an entire cow? One anaconda did*.

The death of Lonesome George in June this year was mourned by environmentalists worldwide.

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A colony of reptiles from Europe has set up home in a corner of north London. They're not the only exotic species to have moved in

The winner of a cockroach-eating contest in Florida has died after consuming dozens of the live insects and some worms.

A man has died after winning a live cockroach-eating competition in Florida.

A 32 year-old man crunched dozens of cockroaches and worms as part of a bug-eating contest, then collapsed and died minutes later, CNN reports.

Move over Spiderman, an Australian teenager yesterday survived a bite from the deadliest snake in the world. One drop of venom from the inland taipan is strong enough to kill 100 adult men, but the boy, who was bitten on his left-hand, is alive and well, Sky News reports.

One of the world's deadliest snakes was discovered lurking inside a shipping container that had passed through a port in Essex.

A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said today.

Has he discovered a new type of snake?