Then he heard her yell, and she began calling “snake ... one from a childcare centre. Juvenile eastern browns deceptively look very different to the deep-brown adult form that most Aussies ...

Hudson Snake Catching in Gold Coast, Australia, was tasked with removing the eastern brown snake hatchling Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Dan Marshall is no stranger to Australia’s abundant snake population. But a recent call from a client was new for him: an eastern brown snake on a roof. “Catch the second most venomous land ...