Georgia is home to five nonvenomous water snakes, all members the Nerodia genus: banded, brown, redbelly, green and northern. Water snakes (even the baby snakes in Georgia) are able to dive and swim underwater. Northern and banded water snakes have brown markings on their skin, which give...
The Northern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor) is one of the large species of snakes in Virginia. It grows to a maximum length of over 70 inches. Northern Black Racers are black only dorsally. They have a white ventral side. These snakes are known to be very adaptive inhabits and prey. ...
Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus) are the largest rattlesnakes in the U.S. and are found across southeastern states, including Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana. They are ambush predators and tend to lie quietly coiled away waiti...
Aspidites melanocephalus, commonly known as the black-headed python, is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae (the python family). The species is native toAustralia. Black-headed pythons are broadly distributed throughout the northern third of Australia, extending from east to west across...
It’s apparently the season of the red snake. We just encountered our firstCorn Snake / Red Rat Snake(oddly enough, for its commonality) — and most recently, on a brief excursion to photograph butterflies in the northern section of the Everglades, I nearly stepped on this lovely youngOrange...
The number of losses of RBB coloration in the tropics exceeds the number of losses in the northern temperate zone by a factor of 5.7, primarily due to the extreme transition rates in several subclades of the tropical Dipsadines, even though the tropics are the centre of coral snake ...
Eastern Worm snakes can also be found in grassland, but they don’t have the largest populations outside their preferred woodlands habitats. Eastern Worm Snakes are very common to the extent of being the most common species in states such as Northern Virginia. ...
J. Whitfield Gibbons, University of Georgia: This timely compilation by Stephen J. Mullin and Richard A. Seigel, with contributions by the world's top experts in snake biology, will rapidly become the foundation for future herpetological research and management involving snakes. In addition to bein...
Snake Man theme song byCarman Clark Georgia's Snakes VENOMOUS Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) Pigmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius) Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous) Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) ...
The sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) is found in the deserts of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Credit: Photo by Wolfgang Wuster Microscopic look reveals differences in the surfaces of snakes’ bellies. Most snakes get from A to B by bending their bodies into...