APPEARANCE: Tan to coppery-red head and hourglass pattern crossbands ... Check out the Maryland Department of Natural Resources "Common Snakes of Maryland Photo Guide." ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.

Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 ...

Biologists released 42 Eastern indigo snakes into their increasingly uncommon environment, the longleaf pine ecosystem in the Florida Panhandle. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...