World Atlas lists 7 U.S. state parks with the most snakes. One in Alabama offers beautiful trails and plenty of slithering ...

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife detected high levels of PFAS contamination in the meat and organs of ...

On the Oct. 8 episode of "Survivor," a contestant was bitten by a venomous snake on the beach in Fiji, prompting medical personnel to pull him from the game. A sea krait bit the right foot of Canadian ...

A guide harvested a 429.6-pound sow, the largest on record in Maine. Discover how it happened and what it means for bear ...

Rattlesnakes are among the most iconic and widespread venomous reptiles in the United States, found across several different ...

Not everyone is thrilled to share their surroundings with snakes. Some folks find these reptiles fascinating and rush to identify one when they spot it slithering by. Others, however, would rather ...

So, you've got yourself a case of the old ophidiophobia, have you? Ophi...what, you ask? Ophidiophobia: A fear of snakes. Don't worry — you're not alone. Studies have shown that while only around 3% ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

“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 ...

A BREVARD COUNTY BUSINESS IS WARNING FAMILIES ONLINE ABOUT VENOMOUS SNAKES OCCUPYING ITS PARKING LOT. IT’S THE TIME OF YEAR WHERE SOME PEOPLE ARE SPOTTING COTTONMOUTH SNAKES, TYPICALLY OCCUPYING THE ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill. Reading time 3 minutes If you’ve ever been morbidly curious about what it would look ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...