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.

That "clod of dirt" was a 4-foot long gopher snake next to a wad of dead grass. "It was still fairly cool, and I know snakes like to lay on asphalt to warm up, and I thought I had just caught him ...

Video shows small Arizona gopher snake produced very big hissing sounds when trying to intimidate a snake catcher. Video screengrab A tiny gopher snake with a hiss worse than its bite was caught ...

Hawaii is not tolerant when it comes to snakes being brought to the islands, and the recent discovery (and prompt killing) of a gopher snake is a case in point. The state Department of Agriculture ...

So when a gopher snake was discovered Saturday in a shipment of Christmas trees being unloaded at a store in Hilo, it sounded alarm bells. “Store staff unloaded about half the container before ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --Wildlife experts in British Columbia are caring for a great basin gopher snake that decided to invade a resident's home instead of going to sleep for the winter. Interior Wildlife ...