This week’s featured creature is fairly common, and it isn’t uncommon for it to venture into residential yards. And because of that, the western rat snake has probably met the business end of a shovel ...

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — You might find some “snakes in the grass,” but not this snake. A Lee County Sheriff’s deputy rescued a snake coiled up in a car’s engine bay this week in Lehigh Acres, according ...

A small red rat snake was retrieved from the engine compartment of a vehicle in Florida. Lee County Sheriff's Office, in a Facebook post Tuesday, said that they received a call about a "15-20 foot ...

It's the time of year when many animals are waking up from a long winter's nap, and that includes snakes. We pulled a Jack Hubley classic from our archives to take a closer look at some of the ...

Check out what one Cypress resident saw on her Ring doorbell camera. The video was captured back on May 8. The resident said she was notified of motion near her door, so she checked out the video and ...

Even a first glance suggests that the common name "black snake" suggests a dark snake slithering around. True, but an incredibly wide range of snake genera that live anywhere around the world fall ...

A two-headed rat snake named Tiger-Lily will be traveling to different nature centers in Missouri while her home site is under construction, conservation officials announced Jan. 16. Missouri ...

Today, July 16, is World Snake Day, and you might be wondering which snakes you could encounter around Fayetteville in the wild. The notoriously misunderstood creatures help control the insect and ...

Rat snakes and rough green snakes can climb trees, fences and walls, often to find food. Venomous copperheads rarely climb due to their heavy, thick bodies. Snakes climb more easily on textured ...