Are you thinking about getting a pet snake? Choosing between a corn snake vs. milk snake can be tricky. Both species look ...

Rainy weather can also encourage snakes to venture out because prey such as frogs, toads and other amphibians tend to be more ...

The red milk snake is one of Missouri’s most colorful snakes. ... This is overlaid by 20-30 brownish-red to reddish-orange blotches that are bordered in black.

Their band pattern is red, black, white, black, red. Coral snakes have yellow bands next to the red ones. Pueblan milk snakes' red bands are about twice as wide as the black and white bands.

Check out the snake that inspired: “Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, friend of Jack." An eastern coral snake photographed at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina Photograph by ...

Today's gem from the Chronicle archive concerns journalist Tim Fleck, who like any good reporter, gravitated toward trouble instead of running away from it. In 1988, while jogging along Buffalo ...