However, these milk snakes aren’t venomous. Instead, the bright colors help keep predators away. How big do milk snakes get? The Sinaloan milk snake can grow three and a half feet long.

Many bites are the result of intentional interaction with snakes, and the study suggests many bites could be prevented.

Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases, eggs. Their diets range widely. Larger snakes like pythons and anacondas can swallow enormous prey, ...

These characteristics are undoubtedly responsible for its being called "spotted adder" in some regions, an unfortunate name because it brings to mind the truly venomous snakes of Europe and Asia. The ...