Venom expert Dr. Sean Bush with Duke Health says heavy rain events tend to push snakes including copperheads out of the holes they tend to hide in.

Wildlife officials issued a warning in Somerset County, New Jersey, to be on guard for northern copperhead snakes after one of the species was seen last week in Watchung, a Garden State borough ...

According to DNR, back in November, a technician searching for eastern indigo snakes found a four-foot-long slithery specimen that had vomited out not one but two other snakes, including a live ...

On Facebook, there is a page with some 49,000 subscribers called Venomous Snakes Classifieds. Despite the background photo of a woman in a bikini eating a slice of watermelon, the conversation ...

Wildlife officials in Georgia stumbled across a pair of snakes that had been "expelled" by a larger serpent, only to discover that one of the regurgitated victims was still alive. When wildlife ...

An Indigo snake like this one surprised researchers by regurgitating three other snakes, including a rattlesnake that later came back to life, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources says.

Officials are warning residents after recent sightings of the venomous northern copperhead snake in Hunterdon and Somerset counties, saying the public should avoid contact with them. The Watchung ...

Project RattleCam started monitoring the Colorado den, home to hundreds of snakes, in May Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Photos show 10-foot Burmese python swallowing a reticulated python whole, eating the snake from the tail up in just 2 hours. A Burmese python has been spotted attacking and swallowing a ...

The boy told event staff he thought the snake was a stick and attempted to pick it up before he was bitten. He was treated for a suspected snake bite in the event’s medical tent and was taken to ...

An urgent warning has been issued to Australians as unseasonably warm weather has meant that snakes are leaving their winter hiding places ahead of schedule. The warning comes as one snake catcher ...