The vast majority of Texas’ native snake species are nonvenomous — such as this diamondback water snake (l-r) and gopher snake. Knowing how to properly identify snakes can help alleviate fears and ...

especially because the rattlesnakes in our state have a close look-alike, the Gopher Snake. "The most common ones people see ...

And snake-killing contests are harmful to many species besides snakes. To catch rattlesnakes for the events, hunters too often spray gasoline into gopher tortoise burrows, destroying the burrows and ...

"Any other snakes in Arizona that aren't venomous, like a gopher snake, they're not going to have big heads like that. Their heads are going to be about as thick as their neck," Morris said.