Recent Examples on the WebBoa constrictors are large, nonvenomous snakes native to Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024 Cadden added that after speaking to a Game and Fish expert on reptiles, the slithery creature appeared to be a gopher snake, one of the most common nonvenomous snakes in Arizona.—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024 The nonvenomous, water-loving reptiles—named for their dotted underbellies—are some of the animal kingdom’s most dramatic actors, new research finds.—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024 More straightforward was a request to remove a nonvenomous carpet python, its body intricately patterned with whorls and swirls, coiled in the depths of a shed.—Natasha Frost David Maurice Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 According to the Miami Herald, the scaly intruder is a 2-foot-long corn snake, a nonvenomous reptile native to Florida.—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024 Australia, for instance, has more venomous snakes than nonvenomous ones.—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023 Conservancy of Southwest Florida Burmese pythons are nonvenomous constrictors that have long been an invasive species in Florida, primarily living in and around the Everglades in South Florida.—Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 July 2023 Glass lizards are a nonvenomous species and are completely harmless to humans, detailed the Encyclopedia of Alabama.—Sarah Claire McDonald The Island Packet (hilton Head Island, S.c.) (tns), al, 19 Sep. 2023
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