What Snakes Eat Snakes prefer live prey, and they get far more nutrients out of live animals than dead ones. They will eat eggs from various animals like birds, fish, and even other snakes and ...

How Long Do Snakes Live? Snakes live an average of 2 to 8 years in the wild, and many live double this amount in captivity. Predation is one of the biggest enemies to a snake’s long and healthy ...

Under the cover of darkness, a 1-foot-long predator moved along a branch in the mountains of eastern China. Its yellow eyes scanned the surrounding landscape for its next meal, but it wasn’t the only ...

Someone once asked me if pine snakes eat pine cones. The answer is no. The name refers not to what they eat but to where many of them live, in longleaf pine forests. But someone who does not know ...

Snakes in the family dipsadine have different shaped heads depending on what they eat and where they live.

Species like rat snakes, kingsnakes, and coachwhips sometimes live near homes or farms. That’s a good thing because they keep down rodent populations and, in some cases, eat other snakes ...