Oklahoma is covered with dangerous-looking creepy crawlies, but these critters in the Sooner State could actually kill you.

but two other snakes – a young rat snake and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake. The fates of this trio converged when the indigo snake was picked up last fall in southeast Georgia by ...

Despite their name, rat snakes don't eat just rodents. This huge family of snakes, which lives on every continent except ...

is one of the most common subspecies of western rat snake in the wild. They are found in the south-central US (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana) and it is not unusual to find them near and in ...

When the dates of the Oklahoma State Fair roll around ... Instead, the object of animated attention was a wild snake that was desperately attempting to escape danger. The only "hidey hole ...

The team found a live 4-foot-long (1.2 meters) indigo snake alongside two other snakes — a "young rat snake" and a juvenile eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) — that had ...

"After catching and tagging a stout 4-foot-long indigo in southeast Georgia, Moore discovered that the snake had regurgitated two others: a young rat snake and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed ...

After catching and tagging a stout 4-foot-long indigo in southeast Georgia, Moore discovered that the snake had regurgitated two others: a young rat snake and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed ...

Nature truly has its surprises!” The three snakes that emerged were identified as “a slimmer indigo, a young rat snake, and a juvenile eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake.” Georgia Department ...

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 ...

Found in the eastern and central portions of Oklahoma, the venomous copperhead snake plays an important role in controlling to rodent and vermin populations, according to the wildlife department.