The first thing that comes to mind when one hears of snakes is fear. The image of a cobra or a viper strikes their mind immediately. This leads to the common belief that all snakes are deadly. However ...

Border Patrol officers caught a tractor driver trying to sneak 39 pythons over the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this month, ...

Officers selected the driver for inspection and discovered 39 live pythons hidden inside the tractor-trailer, just after the operator denied the vehicle contained any prohibited goods.

Every year, many non-venomous snakes are killed just because people can’t tell them apart from dangerous ones.