It's the first time a rainbow snake has been spotted in Florida's Marion County since 1969, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History. The snake, also known as an "eel moccasin ...

A hiker in Florida found and took pictures of a rare rainbow snake, a species that experts say hasn't been seen in the area for more than 50 years.

The rainbow snake can be found, "throughout the panhandle and northern peninsula, south along the St. John's River to northern central Florida," according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Scientists are baffled by a Rainbow Boa Snake who gave birth to 14 babies in what they're calling a "rare virgin birth." The snake's name is Ronaldo since it was thought to have been male.

Rainbow snakes spend almost all of their time underwater, hunting fish and eels, so sightings in Alabama are fairly rare. But if you do see one, you won’t forget it. Colorful stripes run the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that two Florida species, the South Florida rainbow snake and the Florida fairy shrimp, have been determined to be extinct. The finding came in ...

“Rainbow snakes are highly aquatic, spending most of their life hidden amongst aquatic vegetation; seldom seen, even by herpetologists, due to their cryptic habits,” says an FWC post regarding ...

“Spotted a rainbow snake this weekend. I’ve lived my whole life in North FL (41) years and this is the first one I’ve ever seen,” Thomas Leebo Holloway said in a Facebook post.

(CNN) — A hiker in Florida found and took pictures of a rare rainbow snake, a species that experts say hasn’t been seen in the area for more than 50 years. Tracey Cauthen spotted the colorful ...

The rainbow snake was once thought have gone extinct in Florida - until now. Two hikers spotted the color creature while walking through the Ocala National Forest, which sits 47 miles north of ...