More than 50 snakes and lizards were stolen from an Australian wildlife park. A baby crocodile was also taken. Workers found that someone had taken reptiles from tanks at the Wildlife Wonderland Park in southern Victoria state Sunday morning.

An Israeli health and beauty spa is now offering a new service for its customers - a snake massage. The treatment comprises of six non-venomous serpents massaging the client's aching muscles and stiff joints for $70. Located in northern Israel, Ada Barak's spa makes use California and Florida king snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes for the massage. Barak believes that physical contact with the reptiles can be a soothing experience.

A drought in Australia has forced thirsty snakes looking for water to migrate from the parched countryside into urban areas. Officials say it is the worst drought there in a century. Many of the snakes are poisonous and pose a threat to people. Eastern Brown snakes are among the most poisonous of the world's snakes. A 16-year-old boy in Sydney was bitten by an Eastern Brown snake and died of a heart attack shortly after, officials said.

The neighbors of the University of Arizona are facing strange problem that includes small white rats that have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets. According to Laura Hagen Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the county's Wastewater Management Department, they are the kind that researchers use in labs.

A group of scientists from Nanning in the southern Chinese province of Guanxi, are claiming they can predict earthquakes just by observing the behavior of snakes. The earthquake bureau in Nannning says they monitor snakes on a snake farm using 24-hour Internet video links. Scientists working for the bureau say the snakes can sense a quake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it occurs.