Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not ...

This week, our Wildlife Wednesday reporter, Vinny Mutone, introduces us to an iridescent snake living at the Santa Fe College teaching zoo.

The Nature Conservancy and its partners are working to reintroduce eastern indigo snakes to their natural habitats Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

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 ...

The king cobra, a venomous giant from Southeast Asia, clashes with the eastern indigo snake, North America's longest, in a battle of deadly precision versus brute strength. While the cobra relies on ...

The docile, nonvenomous eastern indigo snake is known for its lustrous, blue-black body; the reddish-orange hue on its chin, throat and cheeks; and its large size, as long as 7 feet from nose to tail, ...

Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not for its bite, but for its size. What is the longest snake in the ...

The residents of the Sunshine State have a few more scaly neighbors. On April 25, The Nature Conservancy and its partners released 42 young eastern indigo snakes, 22 females and 20 males, at the ...