The American dream of owning a suburban home has led millions to settle on the outskirts of Tucson and Phoenix; today, more than 80 percent of Arizona's swiftly growing population lives in the Sonoran ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for once again denying protection to Tucson shovel-nosed snakes ...

The population of a seldom-seen snake native to the Tucson area is thin enough to make it an endangered species, but it won't be protected as one - at least for now. The Tucson shovel-nosed snake - ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday to deny Endangered Species Act protections to the Tucson shovel-nosed snake, ruling ...

Rattlesnakes are supposedly nobody’s pals. They are rarely included in the list of desert inhabitants that are routinely hailed and heralded. Some two-legged desert rats have even been known to stop ...

TUCSON, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - This story is like a scene from a movie. An Arizona woman returned home from vacation to an unexpected guest, a snake in her toilet! She called a local rattlesnake company who ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a medication that will delay the effects of venomous snake bites. A mixture of carbon monoxide and iron has been shown to inhibit the the ...

TUCSON — Like a scene out of a horror movie, Michelle Lespron returned to her Tucson home to find a snake had set up camp in her toilet. "I'd been gone for four days and was looking forward to using ...

Mention the word in most social functions, and two distinct camps quickly become apparent--those who want to make them disappear, rapidly and permanently, and those who acknowledge their place in the ...

PHOENIX -- A federal judge granted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's motion for summary judgment, rejecting an environmental group's demand that it protect the Tucson shovel-nosed snake under the ...