An Australian snake catcher responded to a family's home where the world's second most venomous snake was found in the washing machine.

For a man in a Blue Mountains town west of Sydney, Australia, he had good reason ... looked under his old mower and found an eastern brown snake curled up under the hood, according to Hovenden ...

a red-belly black snake slithers from a mulch pile before being caught as 102 of the reptiles are captured at a suburban ...

A man in Sydney, Australia called in the local Reptile Relocation business after spotting poisonous red-bellied black snakes in his garden but what ...

Australian National University (ANU) Associate Professor Gavin Smith is unconcerned. "The eastern brown is the snake that people really are afraid of and it has a very bad reputation," he said.

Venom from a brown snake can cause death in less than half an hour of a bite and is responsible for the highest number of snake bite fatalities in Australia. Snake deaths are rare though ...