While this reptile can earn a bad reputation if it lives in your backyard, snakes remain popular pets to keep in the home to this day. But how long do snakes live, both in wild and domesticated ...

There are no venomous snakes that call Rhode Island home, but the bad news for people with ophidiophobia is there are snakes in Rhode Island that can grow to 8 feet long. There are 12 snakes native to ...

The lord of this jungle was a truly spectacular creature—a snake more than 40 feet long and weighing more than a ton. This giant serpent looked something like a modern-day boa constrictor, but behaved ...

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