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 ...

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

Snakes are a common sighting in Maryland, as the state is home to a total of 27 species. Learn more about the 2 most venomous ...

We were eating turkey sandwiches at his kitchen table one afternoon earlier this year when Hiaasen told me about Rocky I and Rocky II, the pet raccoons he kept in the 1970s. Raccoons, he told me, ...

Brood XIV cicadas are emerging in Tennessee, here's where they've been spotted and when you'll see them in your neighborhood.

A recent sighting of an Eastern Hog-nosed snake on the sands of Ocean City has captured public attention, prompting wildlife ...

and brown snake. The Eastern massasauga rattlesnake is Michigan's only venomous snake, and it's rarely seen. As Michigan's weather warms up in the coming days, some of its cold-blooded residents ...

The White House sent a letter today to Congress that laid out President Trump’s proposals for government spending in the next fiscal year. The blueprint called for $163 billion in cuts that would ...