While the deadly coral snake does not exist in Kentucky, there are two snake species that look incredibly similar you may find slithering around the Bluegrass State. The coral snake (Micrurus fulvius) ...

With their bold red, yellow and black stripes, Arizona coral snakes look like they are dressed for a venomous Mardi Gras, but don’t let their small size fool you. These secretive serpents pack a ...

In the world of snakes, nothing can compare to the dazzling red, black and yellow colors of a coral snake, or for that matter, its venom. No other snake has a rhyme associated with it to help humans ...

This is a highly venomous eastern coral snake that does not display alternating bands of red, yellow and black. The abnormality is called an aberrancy. Facebook screengrab Highly venomous eastern ...

The red coral kukri (Oligodon kheriensis) is endemic to a small region of the Himalayan tracts of northern India and Nepal; the snake species was first spotted in Uttar Pradesh in India in 1936. For ...

With fall afoot and baby snakes a-slither, we will soon have more snakes on the landscape than at any other time of the year. The following is one of the many questions readers ask about snakes of the ...

An eagle-eyed photographer has shared a picture of a highly venomous snake he found hidden among the Florida undergrowth. The question is, can you see where the snake is hiding? Tommy Hamrick, an ...

Two red-tailed coral snakes have been observed competing over a caecilian in the first documented wild case of kleptoparasitism within the family Elapidae. Two red-tailed coral snakes have been ...

I often get requests via email or social media to assist with the identification of a particular animal (I love to do this by the way – so feel free!) On multiple occasions, the request is of a ...

Highly venomous eastern coral snakes just got a lot more intimidating, after a Florida biology student found one that doesn’t look like the photos in textbooks. Coral snakes are famously beautiful, ...