New Jersey is home to a rich diversity of snake species, and several of its lakes and rivers are teeming with slithering activity — especially during the warmer months. While most of the state’s ...

An Avoyelles Parish deputy found what the sheriff's office says is a venomous cottonmouth snake slithering in his patrol unit. Tropical Storm Melissa update as "catastrophic" conditions to hit in ...

Anchorage Animal Care and Control says Whey the snake is a 'handsome man' with an impressive personality Anchorage Animal Care and Control/Facebook Anchorage Animal Care and Control (AACC) had an ...

How can you be afraid of an animal whose keeper lovingly refers to it as a “little noodle?” That’s the goal with Lottie, an integrated milk snake that Stephanie Francza, program manager at Anderson ...

Seven venomous snakes call Louisiana home, including coral snakes, cottonmouths, rattlesnakes and copperheads. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 7,000 to 8,000 people get bitten by ...

Serpents get a bad rap. Their lore, both mythological and pop cultural, can engender fear and hatred of snakes. Unfairly, experts say, humans go after the harmless, slithery rat exterminator in the ...