Sunday, February 10, marks start of Chinese New Year. 2013 is the “Year of the Snake” — specifically the water snake. The last Year of the Snake ran from January 23, 2001 to February 11, 2002. The ...

As many as 137,000 people die from snakebites every year. Venom from snakes can cause internal bleeding, attack the nervous system, and even stop the heart. Making anti-venom is an expensive ...

Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles. In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend ...

Optical illusions and mind-bend photos are all the rage on the internet. And the latest viral photo is no different. Twitter user SssnakeySci recently tweeted out a photo of a well-camouflaged snake ...

DALLAS — Updated at 8:30 p.m. with a clarification on what kind of snake is shown in the picture above. Thanks to Mark Pyle, president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Herpetological Society and founder of ...

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Michele Modglin caught a photo of a large snake while hiking along a local parks’ trail. She shared her photo of the black rat snake with Zionsville Parks. The parks ...

A tarantula (Grammostola quirogai) chows down on an Almaden ground snake (Erythrolamprus almadensis) in southern Brazil. Though captive tarantulas have been known to prey on snakes, this is the first ...

A huge snake has been caught on camera trying to devour a fully-grown possum while hanging upside down, shocking social media users. A picture of the slithering predator with its jaws grasping its ...

Atractus dunni, an Ecuadorian ground snake first discovered in 1955. The Atractus genus has more species than any other genus of snakes. There are 140 different members, 33 of which were discovered in ...

The sight of a snake — any snake — is enough to send most of us into a panic. But even though there are 37 species of snakes in North Carolina, the majority of them are nonvenomous and not aggressive ...