A gray rat snake was found hiding inside the toilet of an Alabama property, and the homeowners alerted the police. The incident occurred on Friday in the city of Eufaula, which is located in the ...

Gray rat snakes, or chicken snakes as they are more often called, are non-venomous and one of the most commonly encountered snakes in Mississippi. With brown and tan colors, it is a snake that really ...

One Alabama Police Department is used to seeing the unexpected, but when they received a 911 call about a large snake coiled in a toilet, they were shocked. "We never know from one day to the next ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Visitors at Zoo Knoxville can see a King Cobra crawling around in a large enclosure. They can see gorillas and chimpanzees swinging between branches. They can see bears and owls and ...

A naturalist in Tennessee got a bit of a shock when he discovered an enormous snake slithering around the ceiling of his screened porch on Sunday morning. Jon D. Bumpus, from Nashville, was tending to ...

This week’s featured creature is fairly common, and it isn’t uncommon for it to venture into residential yards. And because of that, the western rat snake has probably met the business end of a shovel ...

Q: I found this snake in my wife’s flower bed, where chipmunks are digging holes that dry out the roots. My question: Do snakes burp? — Robert Reeves, Madison A: That’s a fine fat fellow you have. The ...

The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is sometimes confused with the venomous copperhead is the similar-looking chicken ...

It was a merciless fight, if the picture is any indication. A gray rat snake and a young red-tailed hawk were tangling, and a photo shared by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shows the bird’s ...

Thirteen gray and eight black rat snakes were individually introduced into a room in which the only shelters were three wooden boxes: floor level, atop a 1-m log, and atop a 2-m log. Both races showed ...