Zoo said reptile house closed after a staff member noticed cobra missing. March 27, 2011— -- Lookout, New York -- a poisonous cobra snake may be on the loose today from the Bronx Zoo.

A venomous, tree-climbing 3-foot mangrove snake is on the loose after it escaped its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo Tuesday night — but officials there have kept the area open with just one little ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A venomous snake has slithered out of sight at the Bronx Zoo. The zoo said it was notifying guests entering the popular attraction JungleWorld that the 3 and a half-foot-long ...

“As you can imagine, we are delighted to report that the snake has been found alive and well,” Jim Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo, said in a statement. “ Should anyone have actually been ...

Definitely remain calm and don't panic because a venomous snake has busted loose from the Bronx Zoo, leaving zero clues as to its current whereabouts. The runaway, a slinky black mangrove snake ...

"We are confident the snake poses no threat to visitors," the Bronx Zoo tells PEOPLE in a statement A snake has gone missing at New York’s Bronx Zoo, but visitors shouldn’t feel concerned for ...

"Holding very still in the snake exhibit at the Museum of Natural ... 222 times and received 15,972 votes (27 percent), the Bronx Zoo said. The runners-up: Subira, 14,016 votes (24 percent ...

The deadly, 20-inch snake first caught the public's attention when it vanished from its home in the Bronx Zoo's Reptile House at the end of March. Cobra-Inspired Twitter Account Attracts More Than ...

If you happen to see a 3½-foot-long snake slithering around the Bronx Zoo in New York, have no fear. It’s only “mildly venomous.” “Mangrove snakes, though mildly venomous, are not known ...

one of the world’s rarest and most colorful species of snake, are just a subway ride away in the Bronx. The new hatchlings were born this past Aug. 7 at the Bronx Zoo, with one of the pair now ...

After the escape, Bronx Zoo officials warned that it could be weeks before Mia showed her scaly face around the reptile house. Snakes can go weeks without water and months without food.

From 1899 to 1914, people around the world gave over 12,000 animals to the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx (almost 5,000 of them were snakes). Donations to the zoo fulfilled two purposes ...