Tennessee is home to 32 species of snakes, but only four of them secrete venom. They vary in size, color and habitat of ...

Biologists at Tennessee State University are on the lookout for pygmy rattlesnakes. If you see one, they're asking that, instead of turning to run, you snap a photo. Pygmy rattlesnakes are native to ...

It pays to watch your step in the Ozarks. At the Buffalo Point Ranger Station in Arkansas, a maintenance worker sweeping the grounds discovered a venomous western pygmy rattlesnake lounging on the ...

A four-year study from the University of Georgia says infections may spell doom for some snake species.

First, they slithered a deadly path through the Everglades, swallowing whole some of the most endangered wading birds and small mammals in Florida. Now, Burmese pythons are killing — although ...