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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Decades of efforts to save a rare snake from extinction led Tennessee scientists to the idea of using frozen sperm — which has now resulted in the successful hatching of three Louisiana pine snakes.

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - The Ellen Trout Zoo is seeing success in an ongoing effort to breed and help save an endangered snake species. Robert Jackson is a General Curator with Ellen Trout Zoo. He’s ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...

A Florida pinesnake slithers through its ever diminishing habitat in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina (Saunders Drukker/Flickr) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity sued ...

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

The first Louisiana pine snake of the year has hatched at the Memphis Zoo, officials announced July 17. Screengrab from the Memphis Zoo's Facebook reel An extremely rare snake has hatched at a ...