Snakes.

I turned 2 years old recently. I know. Doesn't the time fly when you're having fun? This milestone really got me thinking about my life, adventures I've had, places I want to go and just about living in the now and being me. I felt I should write a song to capture this feeling and moment in time. You're probably thinking, "What a typical 2-year-old-snake thing to say." Maybe I'm a cliché, but the song was inside me and I just had to let it out. Then recently, while listening to my Pandora app on my iPhone, a Taylor Swift song played. It's her new song, "22." I was a bit shocked to hear it. I had to listen to it several times and just let it sink in. I'm sure it's a coincidence. I mean, ...

Steve Rankin has worked with Bear Grylls as a producer for "Man vs. Wild" since 2008, but it wasn't until a recent trip to Costa Rica that he was attacked by one of the deadly creatures so often encountered on the show. During the visit to Costa Rica, while Rankin was scouting locations for an upcoming Discovery show called "Naked and Afraid," one of the world's deadliest snakes attacked his foot. "As I was traversing through some deep jungle, I was bitten on the foot by a Fer-de-Lance. It was under a fallen tree as I climbed over. ...

St. Patrick's Day, which is celebrated on March 17, honors a 5th-century missionary who was supposedly responsible for spreading Christianity in Ireland, and also supposedly rid the island of snakes by herding them out to sea. Let's take the second assertion first. Did Patrick really cast all the serpents out of Ireland? The answer is No, and Yes. No: Snakes in Ireland were wiped out not by St. Patrick, but by the last ice age. Up until roughly 10,000 years ago the British Isles, along with most of the rest of northern Europe, was covered by icecaps and glaciers, not a great habitat for snakes. When Patrick arrived in the year 432, there were no snakes. Ireland is now one of five major ...

According to Science Daily, a study published in BioMed Central's Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins found that the powerful venom of the viper Echis carinatus may be a source of drugs to treat human disease. Although this family of snakes is responsible for the most snake attacks on humans, the study found that the venom of the saw-scaled viper contains both anticoagulants and coagulants. The venom causes coagulopathy, which can sometimes result in hemorrhaging, strokes and renal failure. However, when the venom was ...

I know a lot of you dread the approaching Valentine's Day. The holiday can be terrifying, and not just because there's a flying, heavily armed baby on the loose, but because of the pressures of dating. I watched "Sex and the City" (I'm totally a Miranda, btw), so I know all about what you humans go through. It can be a zoo out there. Dating is so much easier in the snake kingdom. To help you out, here's some reptilian dating advice to make this the best Valentine's Day ever (which still ranks it as one of the worst days of the year). RELATED: Bronx Zoo Cobra Talks Football Finding an eligible date: In the snake world, the male snake uses his tongue to detect pheromones to determine ...