A kingsnake wrapped around a copperhead, squeezing it to death, in a South Carolina wildlife management area. Andrew Grosse/provided Andrew Grosse was driving in a coastal wildlife management area ...

Please don’t kill the Eastern kingsnake. Unlike other snakes, such as the copperhead, and like the majority of snakes found in North Carolina, the Eastern kingsnake is not venomous. And its population ...

The Gans' egg-eater swallows a quail egg far larger than its head. Bruce Jayne via the University of Cincinnati A tiny egg-eating African snake may take the prize for swallowing the largest meals ...

In North Carolina, there’s a lot of buzz around copperheads. Experts repeat the same advice about interacting with copperheads every year: If you see a copperhead, don’t try to catch it, and don’t try ...

There’s another snake that lives in North Carolina that you really, really shouldn’t try to catch or kill: the Eastern kingsnake. It eats copperheads, the only venomous snakes likely to be seen in ...