Learn how the harbor seal became Rhode Island’s state animal and what this whiskered swimmer says about the Ocean State.

If you spend much time outside in the U.S., rattlesnakes are part of the landscape whether you see them... The post ...

Rattlesnakes are an iconic part of the American landscape, especially in the deserts of the Southwest, as well as the ...

The Guadalupe River is one of the waterways that is home to the most snakes in Texas, but don’t panic if you see one of the slithery creatures the next time you’re tubing in the Hill Country. The ...

Off the coast of Brazil lies an island sealed off from the public, home to thousands of snakes evolved into some of the deadliest predators on Earth. Isolation turned them into specialized killers ...

Georgia is home to 47 species of snakes, of which six are venomous. But, Georgia Wildlife said in their "Venomous Snakes of Georgia" publication that only three "realistically represent a serious ...

A University of Florida study found that snake bites in the state are an understudied but avoidable risk. Most venomous snake bites in Florida occurred when people, primarily men, intentionally ...

To capture snake strikes on video, scientists put medical gel on a stick and warmed it to mimic the body temperature of a mammal. Then, they waited for the snakes to attack. Oliver Neuman via ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

Over 100 videos of venomous snake strikes reveal three different types of attacks, with some biting down several times "to prolong the venom flow into their prey." When you purchase through links on ...

Did you know that Vermont only has one venomous snakes species? Out of the 11 snake species that live in Vermont, the Timber Rattlesnake is the only one that is venomous, having a triangle-shaped head ...