King Cobra. Image by Michael Allen Smith from Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Snakes are among ...

Snakes often get a bad reputation, inspiring fear and anxiety in many people. However, most snake species in the United States are harmless to humans and actually play vital roles in their ecosystems.

Individual color and pattern vary, typically reflecting the earth tones of the rocks and soil they call home, but speckled rattlesnakes always appear as speckled, gritty sand that matches their ...

Copperheads are one of just two venomous snake species found in New Jersey. The subspecies that occurs here is the eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix; Figure 1). They are only found in the ...