Snakes can sometimes be unwelcome guests in your garden or backyard, but you may inadvertently be giving them an invitation if you have these plants.

North Carolina doesn’t have any officially “snake-infested” lakes. But if you spend time around freshwater wetlands, rivers, ...

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia animal enforcement officer has an interesting story to tell of what she did on her day off. Bibb County Animal Enforcement Officer Rebecca Galeazzo removed an eastern rat ...

Gray rat snakes, commonly called chicken snakes, are non-venomous and known for their climbing ability due to their unique body shape. They climb trees to hunt birds, eggs and squirrels, and to bask ...

Q. In a recent column you said bushmasters are the largest pit vipers in the world. I was told pit vipers have vertical pupils, which is one way to determine if a snake is venomous. However, you ...

How many types of snakes are there? It's hard to quantify with one final answer because it changes. The short answer is that ...

The United States is home to a large number of snake species! As you might imagine, these snakes aren’t distributed evenly among the USA’s 50 states. Instead, some areas are more snake-infested than ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay get up close and personal with a large Arkansas rat snake to showcase the beauty of this native reptile.

There are no venomous snakes that call Rhode Island home, but the bad news for people with ophidiophobia is there are snakes in Rhode Island that can grow to 8 feet long. There are 12 snakes native to ...