COLUMBUS, Ohio - In a surprising evolutionary twist, a new study suggests that while one rattlesnake may routinely feast on lizard meat, its seemingly identical neighbor snake might strike and strike ...

This species is native to marshes, floodplains and forests of southeast of the United States, including Florida, up to Missouri and southern Kentucky, west to Oklahoma and Texas. It is a small species ...

This paper presents various aspects of the natural history of two color populations of the rattlesnake Sistrurus miliarius miliarius in North Carolina. It describes the three basic types of preferred ...

The hemipenis of Sistrurus ravus is described and illustrated. Illustrations of the hemipenes of S. catenatus and S. miliarius are also provided. The hemipenis of S. ravus does not exhibit the ...

Venoms from different snake families may have many deadly ingredients in common, more than was previously thought. A new study has unexpectedly discovered three-finger toxins in a subspecies of the ...