Ready yourself for the real-life glowing green menagerie. Ten little piggies that glow in the dark have been created by scientists at the South China Agricultural University. (See the video above ...

Yet the color was something different. Greenish brown with dark, oval spots. This was not a snake that belonged in the Everglades. Shealy did something that comes naturally to the family.

Well-named, the snake is a beautiful lime-green hue on top, shading to lemony yellow on bottom. Rough green snakes spend much of their time skulking through the foliage of shrubbery.