Ellen Trout Zoo has released about 50 pine snake babies into the wild. The Fort Worth Zoo, Memphis Zoo and Audubon Zoo in Louisiana all breed pine snakes too to save the species.

The pine snake is one of the most interesting and robust reptiles you'll find slithering through the pine woods and sandy soils of North America. Belonging to the species Pituophis melanoleucus ...

More than 100 rare Louisiana pine snakes hatched at the Memphis Zoo in 2024, and many will be released back into the wild, the zoo announced. Screengrab from the Memphis Zoo's video ...

The hatching of the 107th tiny, wriggling snake at a Tennessee zoo marks the end of another year of efforts to save one of North America’s rarest snakes from extinction. The Memphis Zoo is ...

Steve Reichling has done many things in his 47-year career as a snake researcher at the Memphis Zoo, but one of the more exciting tasks is wrangling wild Louisiana Pine Snakes. Several researchers ...

Decades of efforts to save a rare snake from extinction led Tennessee scientists to the idea of using frozen sperm — which has now resulted in the successful hatching of three Louisiana pine ...

Pine snake biology is poorly understood, and much of what is known about their ecology is the result of rigorous and remarkable field work conducted in the New Jersey pine barrens for more than 40 ...