NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is helping residents identify snakes. By doing so they hope to keep residents safe and avoid unnecessary fear. During the spring ...

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

In Mississippi, you don't need to look outside to know it's spring. All you need to do is look at social media where photos after photos of snakes are posted with the poster asking for identification ...

South Carolina contends with its share of predators: Sharks swimming off its beaches. Alligators lounging around retaining ponds. Coyotes and wolves on the prowl. But as spring gives way to summer, it ...

"Give people peace of mind, we get that a lot," Jason Compton, a local businessman, said.Compton wanted to answer questions he had about snakes, questions which gave him anxiety."Actually the fear I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Absolutely no one ...

People have developed all kinds of quick gimmicks, nursery rhymes and old wives’ tales in trying to create an easy way to figure out whether a snake can harm you. Some of them work, some of the time.

Iowa has 28 species of snakes, five of which are venomous. Snakes form a key part of the ecosystems they inhabit, helping to keep populations of mice, squirrels, other small animals and even insects ...