The copperhead and cottonmouth snake species are common to Alabama but how many more are there and what are their habitats?

From the weather (“Nah, A/C’s not necessary.”) to the critters (“All snakes love to be pet!”) to the sports (“‘Go Vols!’ is a ...

Alabama’s Walton Goggins had a short visit to the hospital recently when he got on the bad side of a snake used in a scene ...

especially copperheads and rat snakes in central Alabama. “I would say early to mid-April until October/early November is about when you’re most likely to see a snake in Alabama,” Mark Hay ...

In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

UAB Comprehensive Snakebite Program is one of few in the state to offer snakebite care in an outpatient setting ...

Last year, a man was arrested after he allegedly tried to rob a Memphis gas station with a snake. In that incident, police ...

In 2019 the agency wrongly denied the southern hognose snake protection despite population declines of at least 60%. The species has disappeared from Alabama and Mississippi and is considered among ...

which makes it the longest native snake in the United States. It lives in Florida, south Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, preferring mature longleaf-pine habitat, where it seeks out gopher tortoise ...

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