Category: Snake Information & News

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Racer Snake Trapped In Fake Spider Web Saved at Florida’s Pelican Harbor Seabird Station

The snake was taken to the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami, FL, where staff worked to remove the fibers from the snake’s mouth and body. [...]
Oregon State University Gives Large Herp Collection To University of Michigan

Oregon State University Gives Large Herp Collection To University of Michigan

Most of the Oregon State University specimens belong to two groups of snakes; garter snakes and water snakes; and two groups of salamanders comprised [...]
Venomous Pit Viper Species of the <em>Trimeresurus albolabris</em> Complex Described

Venomous Pit Viper Species of the Trimeresurus albolabris Complex Described

The pitviper is green in coloration and sports a whitish belly and a white stripe that appears along the last row of scales before the belly. [...]
Corn Snake Missing A Year In Scotland Reunited With Owner

Corn Snake Missing A Year In Scotland Reunited With Owner

On October 2, the little snake was found in a residential area of Airdrie and dropped off at the Glasgow Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre. [...]
Black-headed Python Cannibalism Event Caught On Camera In Australia

Black-headed Python Cannibalism Event Caught On Camera In Australia

The black-headed python is found in the northern third of Australia, from east to west, including the Northern Territories, northern lattitudes of Que [...]
Venomous Rinkhals Snake Species From Zimbabwe Discovered From Museum DNA

Venomous Rinkhals Snake Species From Zimbabwe Discovered From Museum DNA

Rinkhals, or the ring-necked spitting cobra is not a true cobra of the genus Naja, but belongs to the genus Hemachatus. [...]
High School Students In Arkansas Hatch Out Four Louisiana Pine Snakes

High School Students In Arkansas Hatch Out Four Louisiana Pine Snakes

The four snakes will remain on campus as they are not candidates for release into the wild. [...]
Herpetologist Records Failed <em> Natrix maura</em> Snake Predation Event of Invasive Fish Species

Herpetologist Records Failed Natrix maura Snake Predation Event of Invasive Fish Species

Without intervention, the viperine water snake would probably have choked on the invasive fish and died. [...]
Gans’ Egg-Eating Snake Can Eat Prey Twice That Of Burmese Python Relative To Size And Mass

Gans’ Egg-Eating Snake Can Eat Prey Twice That Of Burmese Python Relative To Size And Mass

Of the 13 snake species with known gape, the Gans' egg-eating snake had the greatest gape. The Burmese python and the western diamondback rattlesnake [...]
New Venomous Keelback Snake Species Discovered in Vietnam

New Venomous Keelback Snake Species Discovered in Vietnam

The snake is named the H’mong keelback snake (Rhabdophis hmongorum) in honor of the H'mong people. [...]
Psychedelic Rock Gecko, Other Reptiles Native To Vietnam Need Protections, Study Says

Psychedelic Rock Gecko, Other Reptiles Native To Vietnam Need Protections, Study Says

The study, which draws largely on the bachelor thesis of Lilli Steiger of the University of Cologne in Germany, has recommended that Vietnam adopt the [...]
Snake Road Closes in Illinois For Annual Herp Migration

Snake Road Closes in Illinois For Annual Herp Migration

The state's forest service began closing the road in the early 1970s to let these reptiles and amphibians safely cross without the threat of vehicular [...]
Parasitic Round Worm Common In Carpet Pythons Removed From Australian Woman’s Brain

Parasitic Round Worm Common In Carpet Pythons Removed From Australian Woman’s Brain

The researchers believe that the woman, age 64, inadvertently consumed the eggs of Ophidascaris robertsi directly from the vegetation, or indirectly v [...]
New Sahyadriophis Genus Created For New Snake Species

New Sahyadriophis Genus Created For New Snake Species

Sahyadriophis uttaraghati is brown to dark gray in coloration with black and white markings that are randomly found toward the posterior of the body. [...]
<em>Paikwaophis kruki</em>, A New Snake Species From Guyana Described

Paikwaophis kruki, A New Snake Species From Guyana Described

The researchers say the snake lives in a fairly dense forest environment with small to medium trees and occasional large trees. [...]
New Snake Species Discovered In Peru named After Harrison Ford

New Snake Species Discovered In Peru named After Harrison Ford

An unusual snake character that Tachymenoides harri­sonfordi sp. n. displays, are the three longitudinal skin folds on the posterior dorsal/dorsolater [...]
USARK Auction and Reptile Super Show Los Angeles August 12 to 13

USARK Auction and Reptile Super Show Los Angeles August 12 to 13

The Reptile Super Show is meant to educate the public about pets they may otherwise never get the chance to know, but we are also passionate about cap [...]
Boa Constrictor Captured On Cargo Ship In Honolulu

Boa Constrictor Captured On Cargo Ship In Honolulu

The snake, identified as a boa constrictor was first seen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, crawling on the deck of the ship that was enr [...]
What To Do If Your Pet Is Bitten By a Copperhead, Rattlesnake Or Other Venomous Snake

What To Do If Your Pet Is Bitten By a Copperhead, Rattlesnake Or Other Venomous Snake

It is very easy to panic in cases like these.  The reality is, the calmer you are, the calmer your pet will be. [...]
New Venomous Snake Species Discovered In Australia

New Venomous Snake Species Discovered In Australia

The desert whip snake (Demansia cyanochasma), is a new species of whip snake that is found in dry habitats across Australia. [...]
Caecilians Have Developed Resistance to Neurotoxic Elapid Snake Venoms

Caecilians Have Developed Resistance to Neurotoxic Elapid Snake Venoms

The research is a textbook example of how predatory pressure on the caecilians caused an evolutionary cascade to resist snake venom. [...]

San Diego Vets Safely Remove Fake Chicken Egg From Gopher Snake

Gus swallowed a dummy egg. A farmer took Gus to the humane society where the veterinarians were able to get Gus to regurgitate the dummy egg. [...]
Michigan Reticulated Python Owner Found

Michigan Reticulated Python Owner Found

The snake, which officers named Jerry, was found in good health and was turned over to the Oakland County Animal Control & Pet Adoption Center. [...]
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