After ensuring that the snake is handled properly, Shakuntala Sutar wraps it around her neck and advises on the proper ...

"The snake is a Black Rat Snake, Pantherophis obsoletus," u/Marty_the_Cat told Newsweek via direct message. Black rat snakes are found across the U.S. eastern states and can grow between 3 and 5 ...

The Carrizo Plains come alive at night and the star of the show is the kangaroo rat. Kangaroo rats dig the burrows used by many residents, and are also the primary prey of Carrizo Plains predators ...

Black rat snakes are significantly longer than copperheads, often reaching 4 to 6 feet in length. Some even reach lengths of 7 feet, making them one of the longest snakes in North America.

One of the deadliest snakes in the world has been found hiding inside a rat-infested air conditioning unit. Stuart Mckenzie, the snake catcher tasked with tracking it down and capturing it, posted ...

Richard is the snake, she said, and Kelly the rat. And she was voting "the way Mother Nature intended it" -- for the snake to eat the rat.

Davis used the snake metaphor to illustrate how the 35 development agreements (the rat) in the pipeline would be digested by the snake (the city) and no longer be of concern.

Mumbai-based naturalists have documented a rare instance of ophiophagy (snake-eating behaviour) at Maharashtra Nature Park, where a rat snake was observed consuming a juvenile Indian rock python ...