A ton of live snakes have been discovered by Vietnamese Customs officials onboard a plane from Bangkok. Custom officials said the snakes were contained inside 60 boxes marked 'fresh fish,' onboard the cargo hull of a Thai Air plane.

In an attempt to protect her dog, an 80-year old woman shot and killed a mountain lion that was in her French Creek home. Martha Smith tried to shoot the lion but missed the first time, forcing her to rush back to her house and dial 911.

A woman who had long given up finding her nose stud after losing it in the waters while kneeboarding, got the surprise of her life after it turned up inside a fish caught by her fiance. Kristy Brittain, 25, of Magra, Tasmania said she never expected to see her stud again. However, to her surprise, it turned up three days later in one of the fishes caught by her fiance, Darren Triffett. Brittain said Triffett and his friend Tim Hall went fishing in almost the same area where the stud was lost. When they were cutting off one flathead, they found the tiny nail-like object inside.

A 12-year-old boy reeled in a 551-pound bull shark Tuesday, north of the Palm Beach inlet in Florida. The catch managed to break the state record for the heaviest bull shark caught. After spending half a day out in the water, Aidan Murray Medley, a seventh-grader at Eagle Hill School who was vacationing with his family, found himself wrestling with the fish for 20 minutes, reportedly losing feeling from his body.

The owners of a trout farm in Southampton were more than amazed to discover why they losing their fishes after a photographer caught on camera the trout fleeing one by one from the fishpond onto a nearby river. Capturing the fishes' escape with the aid of his camera, wildlife photographer Dennis Bright, 59, describe the scene as incredible.