Snake wine isn't the brand name of a boutique new wine, it's a drink often made by drowning a live snake in a bottle of rice wine. Snake wine is found primarily in Southern China and Southeast Asia ...

In hopes of learning more about snake diversity in North Korea, scientists bought several jars of “snake liquor” from a market in its capital city and identified the venomous snakes inside the jars.

Scientists bought “snake liquor” in North Korea and identified its contents as the country’s first confirmed records of three venomous species of pit vipers. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In hopes of ...