A 55-year-old woman in California has recounted how she spent two days in an ICU after she was bitten by a rattlesnake in her ...

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania, and three of them are venomous. The copperhead reaches an average ...

In many animals, skin colors and patterns play an essential role, whether for camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation.

Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 years, effectively gaining immunity to ...

To identify a copperhead, you can’t just go by color alone. Here’s what gives some copperheads a different look.

(CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including ...

In corn snakes, certain lineages have red, yellow or pink colors ... controls striking corn snake patterns like stripes and blotches. While essential for brain function in mammals, in snakes, its ...