You’re stepping onto the patio with a cup of coffee when – freeze – there’s a snake in the grass. Your heart spikes. Your ...

The “giant” part of its name is pretty apt – adult giant garter snakes can reach a whopping 1.62 meters (5.3 feet). Sure, ...

Seeing wild animals in your yard can feel like a testament to the life that truly exists in your garden. A gardener in Long Island posted a photo captioned "Snake! That is a first for me," to Reddit's ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Rattlesnake sightings in Northeast Kansas have been increasing due to heavy rainstorms. While sightings have increased, the number of rattlesnakes in the area has not. “A lot of ...

The educator reportedly brought in four kittens, feeding one to the snake while students were not present Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human ...

As the leaves turn to shades of orange and brown, a copperhead snake starts to blend perfectly into its habitat. These are one of four venomous snakes found in Texas alongside rattlesnakes, ...

"If it came down today, I would do the same thing," one of the paramedics said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...

Did you know that Vermont only has one venomous snakes species? Out of the 11 snake species that live in Vermont, the Timber Rattlesnake is the only one that is venomous, having a triangle-shaped head ...

Two of the four kittens a science teacher brought to Alvord High School, where she fed one live kitten to a snake, according to school officials. PETA A North Texas high school teacher fed an “ailing” ...

An Alvord ISD teacher apologized to students after feeding a kitten to a snake kept in their classroom. Alvord ISD Superintendent Randy Brown said district officials received a report on Sept. 3 from ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Brian De Palma recently turned 85, but even when he was younger, even when he was briefly a go-to buy for making big-budget, big-star studio thrillers, the man had a ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...