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Rattlesnakes, feared for their potent venom, are often mistaken for harmless species. This article explores eight snakes that ...

Don’t be afraid: of all of the snake species in Alabama, only six are venomous. Three of those six venomous species are ...

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Bill Wheeler is at home in a pit full of vipers. He’s been wrangling them all his life. His father, also Bill, helped start ...

A healthy 4-year-old girl is brought to the local urgent care clinic for evaluation of a snakebite on her right hand that ...

It is officially summer, and the Missouri Department of Conservation is warning residents to be on the lookout for snakes."In Missouri, there's a lot of snakes.

Q. In a recent column you said bushmasters are the largest pit vipers in the world. I was told pit vipers have vertical ...