AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)-Summer through early fall is the peak season for snake movement and mating. Georgia and South Carolina are home to six venomous snake species. There’s the Copperhead, ...

PUXICO, Mo. — Most people don't like snakes, regardless of their role in nature. For eons, tales have been spun that have given people a general disdain for and a bad impression of snakes. Fear ...

IF you ever get bitten by a snake, don’t believe what you see in the movies. Tying a tourniquet, slicing your arm, or trying ...

For a few weeks each year, roughly 2.7 miles of road are shut down in Illinois’s Shawnee National Forest to protect many people’s worst nightmare: thousands of slithering snakes.

Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving. In ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

Less than a two-hour-drive south of Belleville, you can spot more than 20 species of snakes on a hike shorter than 3 miles. “I don’t think you can do that anywhere else in North America,” Mark ...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Biologists at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) support testing by setting their sights on the slithering species moving through the desert. Their aim is to protect local ...

A normal day outdoors turns into chaos when a rattlesnake strikes — and the entire moment is caught on camera. The sound of ...