Officials are urging “understanding” over “fear” after a federally protected snake was recently found killed at the Matthaei ...

A Tennessee hiker died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake he picked up. Timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, and massasauga rattlesnakes are Ohio's three venomous snake species. While venomous, ...

It was a massasauga rattlesnake, an endangered species in Illinois, and its head was deformed, covered in strange sores.

A man is dead after attempting to pick up a rattlesnake while hiking on a trail in south-central Tennessee resulted in a lethal bite. Grundy County is about five hours southeast of Vanderburgh County.