This snake that burrows underground is so small that it’s actually known as the worm snake. Worm snakes have tiny eyes, narrow heads, and slender bodies that grow to no more than one foot in length.

“This is a highly secretive snake that appears to have a fossorial (burrowing) lifestyle,” according to the study. The snake has a “glossy” exterior and relatively small head and ...

which makes it the longest native snake in the United States. It lives in Florida, south Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, preferring mature longleaf-pine habitat, where it seeks out gopher tortoise ...

“Nobody has ever recorded a similar-looking snake outside the Hon Tre Island, and moreover the unique maritime forest communities of South-Central Vietnamese coasts in the Khanh Hoa Province and ...

DNR State Herpetologist Nate Engbrecht said because the farm used no-till agriculture, the snakes were able to live in crayfish burrows there. “The burrows are intact compared to traditional ...