They are usually light brown or gray, but can range in color from rusty orange to pinkish to nearly black ... including dry ...

Not only is it considered the rarest snake in the nation, but it is also generally regarded as the rarest in all of North ...

pine forests, and almost everywhere else. They are extremely common. The black racer is another common snake in the eastern ...

The pinesnake has disappeared from most of its range as open, old-growth longleaf pine forests have been lost to logging and development. “We absolutely need to protect the longleaf pine forests that ...

They are usually light brown or gray, but can range in color from rusty orange ... to wet hammocks and seasonally flooded pine flatwoods. The snake is usually gray or tan, but it could be reddish ...

The snake is a transformative symbol because it sheds its skin but doesn't die, and the pine cone falls from an evergreen tree but contains seeds that create a new tree, continuing the cycle of ...

But less than 2 or 3 percent of the original habitat's pine coverage remains, and habitat loss and fragmentation is causing sharp declines in the snake's numbers. The eastern diamondback is also ...

Robert Jackson is a General Curator with Ellen Trout Zoo. He’s seen the Zoo’s Louisiana Pine Snake breeding program start with just six snakes back in 2012, when the last snakes were seen in ...