Have you ever seen a hoop snake? If you're not sure, let me tell you about them: Like most legends, though, the tale of the hoop snake refuses to die. From an early mention of a hoop snake in the 1784 ...

One of the customers, Joyce Denham, has sent me a hoop-snake-sighting report, the first I've received in almost two years. She was at Langtry, which is upstream from Del Rio on the Rio Grande, and she ...

You wouldn’t want to come face to face with a hoop snake. A staple in North American and Australian folklore since colonial times, these creatures were said to hold their tails in their mouths and ...

A legendary hoop snake capable of gripping its own tail and rolling like a wheel has never proven more than a myth, but a new robot could mimic the supposed creature's ability to both crawl and roll ...

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Snakes have been demonized and feared almost since humans first encountered them. A plethora of legend and lore has grown up around the reptiles, much of it of a rather frightening variety. While ...