Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana is home to approximately 48 species of snakes, and seven of those species are venomous. Louisiana also is home to a ...

Serpents get a bad rap. Their lore, both mythological and pop cultural, can engender fear and hatred of snakes. Unfairly, experts say, humans go after the harmless, slithery rat exterminator in the ...

KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST – Many eyes were on the endangered Louisiana pine snake as it hissed and rattled its tail defensively outside the pocket gopher burrow where it was released. The behavior is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — How much do you know about snakes in Louisiana? There are dozens of native species. Some people are terrified of them, a fear called ophidiophobia. But did you know only a ...

Where they live, what they look like and who they eat Snakes! You either love 'em or you hate 'em, or sometimes if you're in the French Quarter you wear them around your shoulders. But one thing's ...

"This is actually an area of high (snake) species diversity - probably the highest in the nation," said herpetologist Craig Rudolph, research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service's Southern Research ...

Louisiana has 48 snake species, seven of which are venomous. Lake Pontchartrain is considered the most snake-infested lake in Louisiana. Lake Maurepas, Calcasieu Lake, and Lake Claiborne are also ...