Texas A&M AgriLife experts share insights on snake behavior, tips to prevent unnecessary fear of snakes and reduce the risk of a bite.

The featured letter to the editor Sunday mentioning Leonard Whitegon brought me a chuckle. He was the principal at Park View Elementary school back in 1960. My 6th grade teacher (Mrs.

Reptiles in Oregon's high desert are quite widespread, though few are especially common. You may see lots at some times and ...

Climate change is accelerating. For the last 15 years, due to the increasingly unhealthy state of our forests, forest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been approximately equal to all other reported ...

In the American Southwest, the Colorado River is home to many reptiles, including a variety of snake species. Some of the snakes that inhabit this region include the Great Basin gopher snake ...

Jill texted me an hour or so later “it was a gopher snake”. I checked on the internet and gopher snakes are indeed non-poisonous and quite common in Southern California. Snakes have been ...

By leaving natural materials in place (at least for a little longer), we can each help to support the intricate web of life that thrives in these beautifully ‘messy’ biodiverse areas in a special area ...

Nearly 200 homeschooled students made their way through the Flint RiverQuarium on Wednesday, getting the chance to interact with Tyrion, a large but docile gray rat snake, and hang out with the ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more than 3,800 acres to SW FL conservation land, part of a 34,595 Wildlife Corridor acres ...

Real talk: even the friendliest snake in North America isn’t going to come slithering when you call its name or do figure eights around your legs like a cat (they’d probably get tangled up in ...

Home to wildlife such as bald eagles, gopher tortoises ... species including the arogos skipper butterfly, eastern indigo snake, Florida burrowing owl and red-cockaded woodpecker.