It is unclear how many people have been bitten by snakes in New Jersey. State officials know of at least 17 snakebites in the ...

Vipers like the timber rattlesnakes and the eastern diamondbacks are venomous snakes with long formidable fangs. They derive their family name Viperidae from the Latin vivus, “alive” and parer ...

The timber rattlesnake is one of North America's most dangerous snakes, widely found across the east of the country. They typically measure 36 to 60 inches in length, when mature, and although ...

Seventeen timber rattlesnakes were found in a West Virginia home this week, and the gathering was no accident, say West Virginia Natural Resources Police. A man had been catching the venomous ...

“Rattlesnakes are the pinnacle of vertebrate evolution,” said Colclough, who considers himself an ardent supporter and ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for instance, has only two species of venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake and the copperhead. The southeastern region of the United States, however ...

We met up with biologist Dr. Anne Stengle of the University of Massachusetts who has been studying timber rattlesnakes for more than 10 years. “Very few people in New England have even seen a ...

The research was conducted in northern Florida, where a variety of dangerous American pit vipers can be found, including the timber rattlesnake, water moccasin, eastern diamondback rattlesnake and ...

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Photojournalist Lauren Pond was covering a worship service led by a snake-handling Pente­costal pastor when he was fatally bitten by a yellow timber rattlesnake in May. She had been photographing ...

The two main genera that make up the rattlesnakes are Crotalus and Sistrurus. Crotalus – The larger genus has 26 species, which include better-known species, such as the timber rattlesnake ...