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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO — In Egypt’s premier Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, snake charmer Amier El Refaie puts some of the world’s most dangerous snakes to sleep. Refaie, who has been charming snakes for the past ...

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, ...

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 ...

Spiders, snakes, bats — and big prehistoric-looking lizards. Come October and Halloween, some creatures get scarier to many as their dangerous, frightening and even blood-sucking reputations grow. So ...