Their heads are a distinctive rich copper-brown, giving them their common name. Garter Snake vs. Copperhead: Hunting and Diet ...

Their diet mainly consists of small mammals and birds, but they will also eat other snakes or small lizards on occasion. As their name suggests, brown tree snakes are primarily arboreal, which ...

Plus, almost all California legless lizards and glass snakes can shed their tails to escape predators. This tail fragility is what gives glass snakes their name. The tails do grow back , but they ...

They are distinguished by their black and yellow stripes, which is how they got their name. The snakes can grow to about 7 feet, but on average they are around 3 feet.

Of the five species, one — a red-orange snake with large, glowing orange eyes — is called DiCaprio's snail-eating snake. Its scientific name, Sibon irmelindicaprioae, is a blend of his mother ...

Coral snakes have red, yellow and black rings around their bodies, a color combination so popular that rhymes have been created to help people differentiate between species. "Red on yellow, kill a ...

Then, for a $20 fee, visitors separate skin from sinew, anoint their palms with snake blood, and leave their red handprints on the wall. Even young children participate.

As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young ...

Check their scientific names too. Here are 10 of the most dangerous snakes in Australia. Check their scientific names too. Australia is home to some of the world's most venomous snakes.