As slithering reptiles go, the northern pine snake isn’t all that dangerous. It isn’t venomous. It spends most of its time burrowing underground. It rarely goes near humans. But among South Jersey ...

They were born and raised in captivity, but as they slowly slithered away from their handlers and disappeared into gopher holes in the Kisatchie National Forest, the group of Louisiana pine snakes ...

LAFAYETTE, La.— In response to a legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected the Louisiana pine snake today as threatened under the Endangered ...

An extremely rare snake has hatched at a Tennessee zoo as part of efforts to save the species from extinction, the zoo said. The first Louisiana pine snake of the year hatched among a “whopping” 114 ...

"The Steve Irwin vibes are IMMACULATE," another said. Cave shared that Irwin was his "hero" growing up as a young kid with an unwavering fascination for nature. "[Irwin] was larger than life," he said ...

Chance Duncan, a teacher at Russellville High School in Russellville, Arkansas, has been making conservation efforts since 2016 to repopulate Louisiana pine snakes, a rare species. Having some success ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SABINE, La. (KTAL/KMSS)— A Louisiana ...

Steve Reichling has done many things in his 47-year career as a snake researcher at the Memphis Zoo, but one of the more exciting tasks is wrangling wild Louisiana Pine Snakes. Several researchers at ...

Louisiana is home to about 48 species and subspecies of snakes, and seven of them are venomous. The vast majority of snakes in the state are nonvenomous, and they play a role in controlling local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now that the weather is warming up, expect to see more snakes. But there is no need to be alarmed, North Carolina wildlife ...