Sir Hiss is on the loose! A Swedish zoo has locked down part of its facility after an eight-foot-long king cobra escaped its enclosure on Saturday. The slithery reptile — named Sir Vass, which ...

This slippery, modern-day Houdini is sparking hiss-steria. A Swedish zoo remained on partial lockdown Tuesday three days after a deadly 8-foot-long king cobra escaped in front of rattled visitors. The ...

A 20-foot King Cobra slithered into a classroom in Odisha. In a nerve-wracking rescue, two men from the Snake Helpline team cornered the hissing, defiant cobra -- one grabbing its tail, the other ...

When one woman heard a hissing sound from her dryer, the last thing she probably expected was to find a King Cobra. A missing King Cobra snake who shares the same name as the King of Rock and Roll was ...

Stockholm — A Swedish zoo has been partially shut down after a king cobra staged an impressive escape from its enclosure at the weekend, with staff on Monday still searching for the venomous vagrant.

A zoo in Sweden is partially closed after a highly venomous snake escaped its enclosure just days after arriving at its new home. A king cobra named Sir Vass (Sir Hiss in English) arrived at the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Elvis is back in the building. Elvis, the missing king cobra snake, was returned to its owner's home near Orlando after being on the loose for more than a month. A woman who lives ...

HELSINKI — A venomous 7-foot king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga. "Houdini, as we ...

The venomous eight-foot-long snake went missing from Skansen Aquarium on Saturday, and part of the zoo is still closed while staff search for the reptile Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for ...