While there are several venomous species of snakes that live in North Carolina, the one most common in the Raleigh and Charlotte areas is a copperhead, characterized by their brown, Hershey's Kiss ...

We asked Falyn Owens, a wildlife biologist with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, about how to deal with snakes. Can you get snakes out of your yard before going outside? No. Around here, when ...

Warmer weather means more snakes out and about and in North Carolina, there are a number of venomous types. According Dr. Benjamin German, an emergency medicine physician with WakeMed, their ...

How can snakes still bite after they’ve been beheaded? Even after a snake has been beheaded, its neurons continue to fire, and its tissues work, Beane said. Reptiles including snakes don’t ...

It’s summertime, which means snakes (and soon, cicadas) are emerging. In the Triangle and central North Carolina, most of the snakes you might encounter are not venomous. If you do run into a ...

Killing protected snakes in North Carolina is illegal and can result in a misdemeanor charge.

Snakes of all kinds can climb, but not all are great climbers. Two North Carolina wildlife experts say which snakes can climb, what they climb and why.

Beheaded venomous snakes like copperheads may still bite hours after death. Snake bite cases are rising as weather warms, Triangle hospitals report. Experts advise avoiding and not handling snakes ...

Snakes of all kinds can climb, but not all are great climbers. Two North Carolina wildlife experts say which snakes can climb, what they climb and why.

Snakes of all kinds can climb, but not all are great climbers. Two North Carolina wildlife experts say which snakes can climb, what they climb and why.