The practice of eating other snakes helps reduce competition for food resources and ensures a steady supply of prey. In addition to the King Cobra, the Eastern Kingsnake in North America is ...

Some snakes eat other snakes - a behaviour called ophiophagy -- as a survival strategy to reduce competition for food ...

Sollenberger called spring "a busy time for snakes," noting sightings of them rise significantly this time of year. And there ...

Snakes have always invoked terror in people’s minds, and the fear is not new. It has existed for thousands of years, ...

“Red bellied snakes and brown snakes like to eat slugs.” A king snake eating a copperhead in Burke County, Georgia. “Opossums ...

Vipers and cobras inject their venom through hollow teeth. In other groups of snakes, the teeth can be solid or have a deep groove that acts as a channel for venom. The shape of the fangs varies ...

Many snakes are top level predators; for example, a single rat snake can consume over 100 rodents a year. Other snakes are important in the control they exert on insect and other invertebrate ...