The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

The beautifully colored corn snake is endangered in New Jersey. It is a southern species, living at the northern limit of its range in the sandy pine forests of New Jersey’s Outer Coastal Plain, deep ...

Among the 5,000 existing species of mammals, more than 100 have their genome sequenced, whereas the genomes of only 9 species of reptiles (among 10,000 species) are available to the scientific ...

Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary in Elm is expecting 40 baby corn snakes this month – and you can watch the live stream of the corn snakes hatching here. Some of the snakes began hatching Tuesday, ...

Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary, of Lancaster County, welcomed some new reptilian additions to its family, and there’s more on the way. The reptile rescue and education organization livestreamed ...

An animal shelter is calling on reptile enthusiasts to help rehome six snakes in its care, including a long-term resident ...

A man delivering a car from a dealership recently spotted a corn snake hanging from the car's dashboard that kept slithering throughout the vehicle to avoid being captured. The man was delivering the ...

Deep in the Pine Barrens, poachers can wander for hours at a time. Their eyes scan the forest floor for dull orange, camouflaged corn snakes, a state-endangered reptile long threatened by a ...

In the springtime, they slithered out from a long winter's nap to soak up the sun, and now those venomous snakes are reproducing. Yes, Copperheads are having babies. Seeing these serpentine neighbors ...

Global warming. Habitat destruction. Pesticides and pollution. Environmental forecasts and reports are all too often full of grimness and gloom. But ecology has its lighter moments, and I take solace ...