Please don’t kill the Eastern kingsnake. Unlike other snakes, such as the copperhead, and like the majority of snakes found in North Carolina, the Eastern kingsnake is not venomous. And its population ...

In North Carolina, there’s a lot of buzz around copperheads. Experts repeat the same advice about interacting with copperheads every year: If you see a copperhead, don’t try to catch it, and don’t try ...

If you see an Eastern kingsnake in metro Atlanta this summer, some Atlanta-based researchers want to know about it. It’s part of a “citizens science” project called Urban Kings in which folks are ...

When you think of snakes, you may be most concerned about whether the snake is venomous or not. Rattlesnakes in the United States are very venomous; the Black Mamba is an extremely venomous snake in ...

Copperheads and kingsnakes both inhabit much of the eastern and central United States, but their habitats may be the only thing they have in common. If you’ve ever wondered how to tell these snakes ...

It’s a black and white snake that’s common to see in Virginia but often overlooked because it’s not what snake experts consider “venomous sexy” — the eastern kingsnake. But researchers with the ...

A Georgia woman witnessed a “once-in-a-lifetime wildlife interaction” when she saw a large Eastern kingsnake kill and eat a timber rattlesnake, according to the state’s Wildlife Resources Division.

A Georgia woman witnessed a “once-in-a-lifetime wildlife interaction” when she saw a large Eastern kingsnake kill and eat a timber rattlesnake, according to the state’s Wildlife Resources Division.