In North Carolina, we’re used to having snakes around, and they occasionally make headlines for getting caught in some unusual situations. For example, snakes have made national headlines this summer ...

We wanted to find out more about snakes and, in particular, two of the most common you could encounter, including the black rat snake and copperheads. It’s that time of year again for all things ...

Adult brown (or dekay) snake. At full grown, they are about a foot long. Courtesy of Talena Chavis. On social media sites, seemingly every snake in every photo is identified as a venomous copperhead.

When it comes to terrible things that could happen to you, dying from heart disease is way more likely than a snake crawling out of your toilet, but the snake is scarier anyway. It’s not logical, but ...

Q. In a recent column you said bushmasters are the largest pit vipers in the world. I was told pit vipers have vertical pupils, which is one way to determine if a snake is venomous. However, you ...

An Australian man was shocked to discover that the rat trap he heard go off in his home had ensnared an a big tiger snake instead. Man set trap for Rats, catches big snake instead Anthony Parker of ...