If you want to harbor the pest-eating advantages of snakes, there are two species in particular you may want to share your garden with: the Dekay's brownsnake and red-bellied snake.

As the weather gets warmer, snakes will begin to appear. In Louisiana, there are seven venomous snake species. What they are and how to identify them.

They shaped its branches by using genomic data from more than 1,000 species of squamates (the order of reptiles that includes snakes and lizards) to chart how these scaly critters changed over time.

Snakes are slithering reptiles found almost everywhere in the world, including your backyard. New Jersey is home to around 20 snake species, depending on whether subspecies are counted, scattered ...

Quinlan was off for the day when a student checked on the snake, a 13-year-old six-foot Brazilian rainbow boa named Ronaldo. The student found Ronaldo with 14 babies in her vivarium, he told USA ...

But a new study has turned the attention toward female snakes and found that they have a clitoris. ... (Acanthophis antarcticus), a venomous australian snake, was a focus species of the research.

Characteristics: Western fox snakes are one of the larger species in Iowa, ranging from 3 to 4 ½ feet long. They have a wide range of ground colors, from dull yellow to dark brown.

The only two types of venomous snakes spotted approaching Wichita are the broad-banded copperhead and the w estern massasauga, but none have been reported in the city limits. The Broad-banded ...

For all of you who get the heebie jeebies when you see a snake, here’s something else to think about. South Carolina is home to three types of snakes that can climb.