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Native to New Guinea and Australia is the carpet python. Scientifically classified as Morelia spilotes variegata, this is a snake that can grow up to seventeen feet in length, and is thus considered a mid-sized python. Although long for other snakes, one has to remember that the longest python extends to over thirty feet (the reticulated Python, which is scientifically classified as Python reticularis). The python gets its name from the fact that many consider than its skin colorings look like an oriental rug.

If you are considering a scorpion as a pet then you will most easily be able to get your hands on one of the following scorpion species: Flat Rock Scorpions, Giant Hairy Scorpions, Gold Scorpions, African Burrowing Scorpions, Asian Forest Scorpions, Bark Scorpions, and Emperor Scorpions. These are just a small sample of the more than 1,500 different species that inhabit a wide range of places in the world, everything from rain forests to woodlands.

There are few places in the world that haven’t been colonised by snakes and other reptiles. Snakes can be even found in towns, although it is only the friendlier ones that usually survive our wrath. However, if you want to look for a few of the more uncommon snakes, you could look in parks and fields, on beaches or in rivers and ponds and even in the sea, depending on where you live, naturally, as sea snakes tend to swim in warmer, tropical waters.

The snake called the spitting cobra is one of the most peculiar species as it not only has a venomous bite but it also sprays venom into the eyes of its prey and aggressors. Contact of this venom with your eyes can be very painful and even temporarily blinding, therefore, if you get cobra venom in your eyes, irrigate them immediately in order to prevent permanent tissue damage.