"I was staring at this snake and I'm screaming – 'It's a real snake,'" Jennifer Baker said of finding the snake in her home Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most boas, which are a type of large, non-venomous ...

Man holds eastern indigo snake drymarchon corais couperi© Rickard James, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Have you ever wondered what the largest snake in North ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...