They can grow up to 15 inches long, and have been mistaken for snakes. The pests prey ... according to the Texas Invasive Species Institute. The worms prefer dark, damp areas and are most active ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have made major headway in understanding a strange and elusive species of snake-like worm known as amphisbaenians. The worms are vertebrates ...

Nailor told Chron he spent more than 20 nights in West Texas searching for the non-venomous species. In the U.S., gray-banded ...

If you're spending time outdoors in Texas you will want to avoid these six deadly snakes if at all possible. This is one of ...

A Texas woman was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird - which eats snakes - accidentally dropped the wriggling serpent on her. Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her lawn last ...

Dramatic footage of the moment a five-year-old girl in Texas was ambushed by a large black snake on the porch outside her home has been captured on a doorbell camera. A video shared with Newsweek ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Hurricane Carla ... reported that most of the injuries from the hurricane were caused by snake bites from the thousands carried in by the flood waters. Thousands of water ...

MIDLAND, Texas — If you live in West Texas and you've been encountering snakes more often, don't worry you're not crazy. There's actually some science behind it. According to Michael Nickell ...

I’ve heard stories about hikers going on trails without enough water or getting bit by rattlesnakes, but I’m a rancher from Texas—I know ... saw what she saw—a snake.

Sonderman) Some 1,500 years ago, a hunter-gatherer in the canyon lands of the Lower Pecos region of southwest Texas made the unfathomable decision to gulp down a whole snake, fangs and all.