Category: Snake Information & News
USFWS Seeks Threatened Status For Southern Hognose Snake
The Southern hognose snake is a harmless, small snake that measures between 14 and 24 inches in length. [...]
Snake Myths And Misconceptions
Wildlife-human coexistence can be difficult. Wildlife can create challenges for humans such as threatening their safety, livelihood, and food sources. [...]
Florida FWC Seeks Rainbow Snake Sightings
The rainbow snake, also known as the eel moccasin, is a non-venomous colubrid snake that is primarily aquatic and feeds on eels, frogs, tadpoles and o [...]
Women Dominate 2025 Florida Python Challenge
This year’s challenge saw women dominating the field. Taylor Stanberry won the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000 with 60 pythons removed from the Evergl [...]
Video Shows Alligator Eating Burmese Python In Florida Everglades
Joslyn named the gator Chomp and kept tabs on him for a few days. [...]
Reptile Hunter Captures Large Reticulated Python in Los Angeles Parking Garage
The reticulated python showed signs of mouth rot or some other ailment when Hart captured the snake. Hopefully the snake isn't doing too bad and will [...]
World’s Smallest Snake Not Seen In 20 Years Rediscovered In Barbados
The diminutive snake, which is a blind snake like the Brahminy blind snake, measures just 3 to 4 inches in length. [...]
Snakes Have Smelly Butts To Repel Ants
These cloacal fluids are comprised of insecticidal carboxylic acids in the scent gland secretions of snakes that deter ants. [...]
Burmese Python Intestinal Cells Help Digest Bones
The bone digesting cells, called enterocytes are also present in other python species, boa species and the Gila monster. [...]
More Than 3 Tons of Burmese Python Snakes Removed From Southwest Florida This Season
The Conservancy team currently tracks 40 scout snakes during the breeding season, which occurs from November through April. [...]
47 Venomous Snakes, 5 Asian Leaf Turtles Seized by Indian Customs
The venomous snakes included three spider-tailed horned vipers, known to use luring to capture birds, and 44 Indonesian pit vipers. Five Asian leaf tu [...]
USARK UPDATE: Federal Light Bulb Ban
Reptile, amphibian, and other animal keepers will get some relief from the Department of Energy ban on specialty animal care light bulbs. [...]
Man Injects Snake Venom From 19 Species, Leads To Antivenin For Many Snakes, Study Claims
While the research provided protection to the mice, the next step is to test the cocktail on dogs that are brought into veterinary clinics in Australi [...]
42 Eastern Indigo Snakes Released Into Florida’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve
The snakes, 22 females and 22 males, were hatched at the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC). [...]
Shawnee National Forest’s Snake Road to Reopen May 15
“Snake Road” in Shawnee National Forest in Illinois has closed for the annual migration of reptiles and amphibians to their winter habitats in the lim [...]
Color Patterns of Corn Snakes Determined By Single Gene
The mutated gene does not cause any neurological or behavioral disorders. [...]
Weather And Prey Factor In Venomous Snake Venom Potency
The researchers exposed the rodent serum samples to warm temperatures (85 degrees Fahrenheit/29.5 degrees Celsius) and cooler temperatures (70 degrees [...]
Snake Lungworm Parasite Found in 14 Florida Counties
Also known as snake lungworm, the parasite may soon be in Georgia or other neighboring states. [...]
Could The Flowerpot Snake Provide Insights Into Down Syndrome?
The Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus) is one of the most popular snakes in the herp world due largely to the fact that it is one of the sma [...]
Venomous Keepers In South Carolina Fight To Keep Their Snakes
After a man in the city of Florence was bitten by an inland taipan snake, the state house moved to introduce the South Carolina Venomous Reptiles Act. [...]
Has Keeping Kingsnakes And Corn Snakes In Florence, SC Been Banned?
Reptiles Magazine is waiting to hear back from the city to determine if these non-venomous and popular snakes among reptile keepers is included, as th [...]
24ft Reticulated Python Goldie Passes Away At Florida’s Skunk Ape Headquarters
Goldie was about 24 feet in length and weighed 400lbs, one of the largest captive reticulated pythons. [...]
Scared Of Snakes? There Is No Need To Be
Fear is a powerful emotion. It stops people in their tracks, but it also moves other people to needlessly kill snakes. [...]
Venomous Cat Snake Found In Bananas In New Hampshire
The Ornate cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira ornata) can be found in broad ranging and diverse ecosystems, ranging from rainforests to dry forests and is als [...]
