Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites — on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world’s most ...

Despite being deadly predators, rattlesnakes avoid skunks because of the skunk’s powerful defenses, biological tricks, and ...

Snakes are ending hibernation to mate and bask under the summer sun. Michigan has one venomous snake. Here's how to identify it.

Officer trainees learned to safely capture, tube and study timber rattlers in Clearfield County, overcoming nerves while contributing to wildlife research.

Three decades ago, scientists began to find razor-sharp teeth from predators that had no business being there.

Ernie Hammer is a long time Kiowa County Press contributor. This story is written by Ernie’s Aunt Liz, Elizabeth Katherine ...

Monmouth County SPCA Animal Control brought it back to the Eatontown shelter where it was put in a clean tank. Whether known ...

Michigan is home to 18 species of snakes, only one of which is venomous, and four that have been declared endangered, ...

It’s one thing to say God will protect you from a rattlesnake, but it’s quite another to actually put your faith where its fangs are. That’s what a Thomasville preacher did 90 years ago, and the ...