Their bites account for 7% of all Texas snakebite cases. A cottonmouth shows its classic pose, which features a cotton-white inner mouth. These native snakes can sometimes be confused with Burmese ...

The Texas indigo snake is a snake native to Texas and nearby Mexico. It is predominantly black with a shiny almost-blue ...

the state’s largest native serpent. Known to science under the evocative genus name Drymarchon—“lord of the forest”—it’s one of the few Texas snakes to enjoy an unambiguously positive ...

There are dozens of non-venomous and venomous snakes native to North Texas. Some of the more common venomous snakes found in North Texas are cottonmouths, copperheads, coral snakes (easily ...

Blink said it was a baby copperhead—a species of venomous snake native to Texas. "The roadrunner seems to be living on the property. We see it nearly every day," Blink told Newsweek. A ...

The battle against the invasive Burmese python by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reached a milestone after a record ...

Tip 2: Learn how to identify snakes in your area Out of the roughly 75 species native to Texas, only about a dozen are venomous. “If you know which of these snakes live in your area, then it may ...

With a passion for snakes and the great outdoors, Mendoza has spent the last few years educating the community about native South Texas snakes. “My advice is don't even mess with them.