Ohio sits just at the start of the Midwest and Plains portion of the United States. It is often said to be the gateway to the ...

One Memphis family recently had a close encounter of the legless kind when a nearly three-foot-long gray rat snake crawled out from under their vehicle's hood as they drove down Sam Cooper ...

One of two species of rat snakes in Tennessee, the gray rat snake can be found from the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains through the state. They are also commonly known as chicken snakes ...

As the family drove down Sam Cooper Boulevard in Tennessee at high speeds, a three-foot-long gray rat snake emerged from the vehicle's hood and began slithering along the windshield. The ...

Many snakes are top level predators; for example, a single rat snake can consume over 100 rodents a year ... frequently encountered in barns in search of its rodent prey (it also eats other snakes).

29. The team found a live 4-foot-long (1.2 meters) indigo snake alongside two other snakes — a "young rat snake" and a juvenile eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus ...

A red-tailed hawk fell out of the sky last week in east Tennessee and witnesses say it landed in the road with a snake wrapped tightly around its neck. People in Tennessee are apparently getting ...

Those squeamish photos show a burly, 4-foot-long eastern indigo snake that had eaten not just one, but two other snakes – a young rat snake and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake.

Upon closer inspection, researchers noticed a few key differences in the snake’s morphology and identified it as a new species. Ptyas bachmaensis, or the Bach Ma green rat snake, is first ...

"After catching and tagging a stout 4-foot-long indigo in southeast Georgia, Moore discovered that the snake had regurgitated two others: a young rat snake and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed ...

Revealing active behaviour that adds to our understanding of the nature of a species. Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar (Mexico) waits in darkness as a Yucatan rat snake snaps up a bat. Using a red ...