850 Snakes Found in Shirley Home

850 snakes found in NY
Image credit: AP / Daily Mail

About 850 snakes were found inside the home of an animal control officer in Shirley, New York on Thursday, September 19, 2013.

Authorities say that along with the 850 snakes found in two garage of Richard Parinello were two 6-foot Burmese pythons.

The 44-year-old Brookhaven Town employee is being accused of selling the snakes.

Keeping Burmese pythons is illegal in the state of New York.

According to Suffolk County SPCA Chief Roy Gross, "There is a reason why Burmese pythons are illegal."

Last month, two young boys, Noah and Connor Barthe, in New Brunswick, Canada were reportedly fell victim by an African rock python.

231-pound Halibut captured in Homer, Alaska (Photo)

231-pound Halibut
Credit: DeepStrike Sportfishing

A 231-pound Halibut was caught by Dirk Whitsitt during his first fishing trip in Cook Inlet off Homer, Alaska.

It reportedly took about 45 minutes before the massive fish was taken out from a 370 feet deep of water.

Whitsitt turned down a $250 voucher offer, from Captain David Bayes of DeepStrike Sportfishing, in exchange for the monster fish.

According to Bayes he usually "offer fishermen a free trip if they opt to release a halibut of that size, but the angler was not interested. That was the third halibut over 200 pounds that we’ve caught in the last month. One was estimated at 225 pounds and released. The other was 236 pounds and is the current Homer Halibut Jackpot Derby leader."

Bayes explained that during, "the end of the fight, the fish headed back toward the bottom and we had to release the anchor to follow the fish. We shot it three times with a .38 special and used three gaffs to pull it aboard."

Rare Lobsters, Two-Toned and Blue Species (Photo, Video)

Rare blue lobster
Credit: YouTube video grab

Two rare lobsters were caught in just one week! How lucky was that a two-toned and blue lobster species were out in the open seas during the last week of August?

Rare two-toned lobster
Credit: Ship to Shore Lobster Co./Handout
A two-toned lobster was caught off Maine by Jeff Edwards of Owl’s Head while a blue lobster was netted off Cape Cod in Massachusetts by Ben Hogan on Thursday, August 30, 2013. The two-toned lobster was reportedly colored orange and brown.

The extraordinary lobsters were believed to be just one in two million for the blue and one in 50 million for the two-toned specie.

According to Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Alan Lishness, the rare colored lobsters "looked as if someone had taken painter’s tape and run it from proboscis to tail, then spray-painted one side. It’s a perfectly straight line. You don’t usually see such hard edges in nature.”

American lobsters are usually colored brownish-green.

Experts say that the unusual color of the newly caught lobsters can be attributed to genetic defect that cause too much production of a particular protein.

The two-toned lobster was reportedly sent to local fisherman's wharf, Ship to Shore Lobster Co. It was later donated to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

Below is a capecast YouTube video of the blue lobster.

53 King Cobras in Car Seized in Vietnam

King Cobra
Credit: National Geographic
About 53 King Cobras in a car was seized by Vietnam authorities in Hanoi on Monday, April 22, 2013.

Reports say that after being stopped by authorities, the driver of the car said that he was paid to deliver the snakes that were placed in a bag. He reportedly received $50 for the transport service.

However, no further details on where and to whom the 53 King Cobras will be transported. The driver was taken into police custody.

958-Pound Blue Marlin Caught by Alexandra Nuttall Off Kona, Hawaii (Photo)

958-pound blue marlin
Image credit: Monkey Biz II Sportfishing

A 958-pound billfish, caught by Alexandra Nuttall, is expected to set a new blue marlin world record.

Nuttall was able to catch the giant blue marlin during during her third and final day of a trip to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii with her boyfriend, Nick Durham.

The Australian angler was on-board the 38-foot Monkey Biz II of Chip van Mols when she landed the towering 958-pound blue marlin. It reportedly took 90 minutes before Nuttall finally put aside the record setting blue marlin.

Maria Tomainia's 950-pound blue marlin, caught in December 1994, currently holds the International Game Fish Association(IGFA) women’s record for 130-pound-test.

In an interview with Nuttall, the angler explained that "It was without a doubt one of the most exhilarating things that I have ever done. I fish a lot back home in Australia with my boyfriend, Nick. Although I have caught many sharks, ono, and ahi here at home, I have spent the last few years chasing my elusive first marlin."

According to van Mols, Nuttall "was kind of in shock. We usually let our marlin go but we were prepared to take a fish if we knew it had a shot at a record. So we got our flying gaffs out."

Nuttall described her record breaking catch,

It was a task dragging a huge marlin like that through the [vessel's] back door with only four people, but we managed.

The feeling that we may have gotten the world record only sunk in on our way back to the harbor. I don’t remember ever feeling the sort of happiness that I was feeling at that point.

IGFA will determine in a few weeks if Nuttall will get a line-class world record.