Mud snakes are shiny black above with a beautiful belly reminiscent of a red and black checkerboard. They are noted for being docile creatures and never biting people when handled.

A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...

A new University of Kansas genomic investigation of a group of unheralded but unique “mud snakes” from Southeast Asia is rewriting the evolutionary history of this family, named the Homalopsidae.

A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...

Mud snake. The mud snake, or Farancia abacura, is a nonvenomous, aquatic snake living in the southern United States, according to the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory at the University of Georgia.

A smooth-scaled creature pregnant with 12 babies slithered through a wetland in a forest in Vietnam — straight into a fishing net set by nearby residents. Creatures from the net were eventually ...

Learn more about how to identify snake holes, including what signs to look for and which snakes are most likely to be slithering in your backyard. ... you could always try to fill it up with dirt.

Mud snakes are shiny black above with a beautiful belly reminiscent of a red and black checkerboard. They are noted for being docile creatures and never biting people when handled.

A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...