A Tennessee hiker who picked up a rattlesnake during a trek through a state park died earlier this month after the snake bit him on the hand, officials said. The snake is believed to have been a ...

A hiker died in Tennessee on Aug. 8 after being bitten by a rattlesnake he picked up, local officials said. The man likely died from an allergic reaction to the snake's venom, though the official ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the southern hognose snake as a threatened species. Habitat loss, road mortality, and non-native species are the primary threats to the snake's ...

A scarlet snake was documented on Sanibel Island for the first time in September. This sighting follows the first appearance of a scarlet kingsnake on the island since the 1970s. Both the scarlet ...

There was some snake news recently in Southwest Florida and it had nothing to do with the invasive Burmese python. On Sept. 26, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) posted on its ...