A yard with flowery trees and green bushes - Dejavu Designs/Getty Images Your yard is alive with wild animals. From sing-song birds to mischievous squirrels to — snakes? That's right: snakes are ...

King snakes, corn snakes and rat snakes, native to Texas and available from retailers through permitted breeders, make good and long-lived pets. Typically shorter than two feet long when purchased as ...

In the springtime, they slithered out from a long winter's nap to soak up the sun, and now those venomous snakes are reproducing. Yes, Copperheads are having babies. Seeing these serpentine neighbors ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and their ...