Returning from a bike ride, I spied a juvenile gopher snake stretched out on the road ahead of me. Though I know snakes have to be coiled to spring, I still swerved a wide arc around it.

According to the department, the snake measures about 21 inches long, and has been identified by reptile experts as a non-venomous juvenile gopher snake. Gopher snakes are found in North America ...

Audubon Zoo Curator of Herpetology Robert Mendyk said he doesn't know how Cage acquired the juvenile two-headed gopher snake. “We do not know the origins of this animal,” Mendyk wrote via ...

Honolulu police officers captured the snake using a bucket. DOA agricultural inspectors took it into custody on Thursday morning. Inspectors identified it as a non-venomous juvenile gopher snake.