After Michigan's snakes hibernate and endure the cold months, they emerge from hibernation in spring, Huron-Clinton MetroParks said, and once the days are longer and steadily warmer they spend the ...

An eastern massasauga rattlesnake, a protected species, was recently killed at the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols ...

The sound of a rattlesnake's shaking tail can evoke a visceral response of fear in almost anyone. But in reality, snakes like the eastern massasauga have more reason to fear us than we have to fear ...

The Eastern massasauga rattlesnake is Michigan's only venomous snake, and it's rarely seen. As Michigan's weather warms up in the coming days, some of its cold-blooded residents will be slithering ...

The eastern massasauga is a small rattlesnake that was once widespread and common but is now threatened in approximately 75 percent of its range. It is protected in every state or province where it ...

Staff at the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum said in a social media post this week that someone killed an eastern massasauga rattlesnake on the grounds ...

The four types of venomous snakes native to Kansas all share the same distinctive physical feature, a heat-sensitive pit in ...

The Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake is a federally threatened species that prefers wetter habitats like edges of lakes, marshy grasslands, and forested swamplands. They can also be found in dry ...

U-M officials are reminding the public of the eastern massasauga snake's protected status after one was killed at the Matthaei Gardens. The threatened species is important to Michigan's ecosystem ...