You would be hard-pressed to find two snakes that evoke more fear than the black mamba and the king cobra. Both species are ...

The king cobra holds the record as the longest venomous snake, at 18.7 feet long. As apex predators, they prey on other snakes, shaping local ecosystems and venomous-snake populations. Read on to ...

Coral and king snakes may look alike at first glance, but they differ greatly in behavior and survival strategies. Both are brightly colored and native to North America, but only the coral snake is ...

Even at highway speed I identified the small snake crawling across the shoulder as a prairie king snake. Old habits -- and herpetologists -- die hard. The harmless snake was determined to cross the ...