Steve Reichling has done many things in his 47-year career as a snake researcher at the Memphis Zoo, but one of the more exciting tasks is wrangling wild Louisiana Pine Snakes. Several researchers at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SABINE, La. (KTAL/KMSS)— A Louisiana ...

Audubon Zoo and the U.S. Forestry Service teamed up last month in an effort to conserve and rebuild populations of an endangered species solely found in Louisiana. According to a news release, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana is home to about 48 species and subspecies of snakes, and seven of them are venomous. The vast majority of snakes in the ...

Decades of efforts to save a rare snake from extinction led Tennessee scientists to the idea of using frozen sperm — which has now resulted in the successful hatching of three Louisiana pine snakes.

The Fort Worth Zoo has released a total of 229 Louisiana pine snakes into the wild in recent years Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand ...

An extremely rare snake has hatched at a Tennessee zoo as part of efforts to save the species from extinction, the zoo said. The first Louisiana pine snake of the year hatched among a “whopping” 114 ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...

Cryopreserved semen and artificial insemination led to the hatching of three Louisiana pine snakes at the Memphis Zoo, according to scientists. Screengrab from the Memphis Zoo's Facebook post Decades ...