Also known as the black rat snake or chicken snake, this constrictor is found widely in the eastern United States. The adults are usually 6 feet (1.8 meters) in length, but a few are 8 feet (2.4 ...

Two Los Angeles-area boaters on Saturday spotted a juvenile gray whale that had recently been killed by orcas and was missing most of its head. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray ...

Rat snakes are non-venomous constrictors from the Colubridae family found globally. They help control rodent populations and display unique behaviors, like tail vibration to mimic rattlesnakes.

Juvenile Black Rat snake. Courtesy of Talena Chavis. In more terrifying snake news for Georgia, it seems that some of the 46 species can climb, and this includes trees, fences, and sometimes even ...

South Carolina is home to three types of snakes that can climb. Yep. Climb. And that’s how they end up in your attic. Or toilet. Rat snakes, black racers and rough green snakes are the climbers ...

Blaze, the red rat snake that's been in residence at the Lyonia Environmental Center for more than two decades, has been at the ready for handling daily during any number of the Deltona preserve's ...

Getty The sneaky snakes – mostly identified as gray rat snakes – finding their way into the substation are causing the outages by coming into contact with the substation's powered equipment ...

Multiple species of snakes have been found dead at the substation, officials say. This is a black rat snake, which is native to the region. National Park Service photo Something odd is happening ...

with the Dekay’s Brown Snake and Gray Rat Snake being the most common. While many people acquire a fear of snakes from an early age, Ferguson and Hay have loved them since they were young ...

Durban snake rescuer Nick Evans started his Tuesday by rescuing a juvenile black mamba in the Malvern area. Evans said got a call from the Malvern area for a “baby black mamba”. “I think all ...

A juvenile gray whale washed up on the shore near the iconic Marine Room restaurant in La Jolla on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Rescuers Prem Aher and Akshay Venkhede were dispatched to carry out the operation Kalyan: A three-foot-long rat snake, colloquially called Dhaman, was rescued from a Kalyan-based private hospital ...