Snakes have always fascinated me. My first encounter was as a 6-year-old who just moved from Manhattan to Babylon. A snake slithered out of the hedgerow and right up to me, so I picked it up! That’s ...

Before you break out that pool noodle for a dip in the water, you might want to check for snakes hiding inside. Fire department officials in Buckeye, Ariz., warned on Facebook of the reptiles hiding ...

South Carolina looks like it will record its third year in a row of unusually high numbers of snake bites. So far in 2018, the Palmetto Poison Center in Columbia has fielded 73 calls reporting snake ...

Reilly Bayley loves snakes. So much so, the 11-year-old Sumrall Middle School student owns a 14-inch speckled king snake named Bruce Wayne. "I hold him sometimes, and I made him a little jungle gym ...

Venomous snakes strike way over their weight in regard to reputation. They can pack a punch, but the odds of encountering one in Ohio is very low. Three venomous serpent species occur here. The ...

ASHEBORO — In literature and lore through the centuries, snakes have been portrayed falsely as evil, murderous, deceptive creatures when, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Snakes ...

Image A shows the snake skeleton in its amber clast, while image B and C show a synchrotron x-ray micro-computed tomography of the skeleton. Ye Liu/Chinese Academy of Sciences If you were to travel ...

BRAINTREE — Experts say venomous snakes remain a rare sight in Massachusetts despite two recent encounters in Braintree. The incidents, involving a copperhead and a timber rattlesnake, brought state ...

If you want to know how to make a sneaker with better traction in the rain, just ask a snake. That’s the theory driving the research of Hisham Abdel-Aal, PhD, an associate teaching professor from ...

Some of the creatures discovered this year were sought by researchers ─ on missions to make historical finds in the depths of the ocean or deep in a cave ─ while others were an unexpected surprise. A ...

In Michigan, about 18 species of snakes are found and they are actually very important to our ecosystem. Recommended Videos Snakes can survive in a variety of habitats such as forests, grasslands, ...