A chicken snake bite may be painful and require medical treatment, but they aren’t venomous. According to the University of Florida Museum, virtually all chicken snake bites occur when the snake ...

Gray rat snakes, or chicken snakes as they are more often called ... of their body shape," said herpetologist Terry Vandeventer of Terry. "If you look at a cross section of its body, it's shaped like ...

Editor's Note: This story originally ran in the Abilene Reporter-News on Feb. 27, 2012. CROSS PLAINS – Snakes weren't on the menu, but they were onstage. Snake handler Jackie Bibby entertained ...

The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is sometimes confused with the venomous copperhead is the similar-looking chicken ...