If you have a wood pile, you may have come across a shed snake skin — a translucent wrapper resembling an onion skin, imprinted with the snake’s scale pattern. Or perhaps you’ve seen one along a ...

Q. Why is the skin of a python a threat to the invasive snake? FWC: Burmese pythons are a cryptic species and, similar to other snake species, their first defense is to blend in with the environment.

Snakes shed their skin several times per year. Shedding is a good indicator that snakes are getting enough nutrition, that their environments have proper humidity levels, and that they are overall ...