Reports of human-snake encounters are on the rise – and some people react to a snake on their property by killing it. But is ...

The timber rattlesnake is critically endangered, both regionally and nationally, after humans hunted them for decades and due to habitat loss. The snakes are incredibly rare in New Hampshire, likely ...

When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

If you see a snake and want to coax it along, gently but firmly spray its tail with a water hose. Keep your distance, and don ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San ...

Snakes become very active May through September. We spoke to a wildlife expert and doctor about what you should know if you ...

While rifling through my desk drawers, I found something timely from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife who issued a valuable warning about ...

Grant High Principal Rebecca McMurrin was recently named principal of the year by a magnet school association. She also has a ...

Eastern Indigo Snake. Photo by Ben Stegenga. Houston Chandler, Orianne Society's Director of Science, releases Eastern Indigo ...

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania, and three of them are venomous. The copperhead reaches an average ...

It eats copperheads, the only venomous snakes likely to be seen in central North Carolina and the Triangle. Its population (most likely) continues to decline. More on that later.

A U.S. Border Patrol K-9 is in stable condition and under observation after a venomous bite from a rattlesnake nearly ended his watch—until emergency vets in La Mesa stepped in.