Despite having a reputation for being evil, snakes are fascinating, diverse, and intelligent animals that play a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem. As of 2025, there are just over 4,100 ...

Someone once asked me if pine snakes eat pine cones. The answer is no. The name refers not to what they eat but to where many of them live, in longleaf pine forests. But someone who does not know that ...

When it comes to eating a big, filling meal, the Gans’ egg-eating snake rules. The African snakes only grow to about 3 feet long, but for their size they can outmatch a much larger Burmese python, in ...