Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) is very common, and people take that to extremes with rattlesnakes, which are much persecuted. Essentially, people and timber rattlesnakes do not mix, although the ...

Finding a timber rattlesnake in Arizona is like finding an alligator in Idaho — they’re not native to the western U.S. Yet one of the venomous snakes was recently found in Phoenix, snuggled up to ...

Rattlesnakes are most commonly associated with the rolling deserts and arid scrublands of the American Southwest, but they have a much broader habitat range than many people realize. Though these cold ...

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, ...

A hiking group spotted the timber rattlesnakes at Blue Hills Reservation in Milton Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

Deep in the rugged mountains of South Carolina, the timber rattlesnake slithers in silence — both majestic and misunderstood. In this episode, see how trained biologists from SCDNR trek into remote ...

Spring is here and that means the snakes will be soon enough, too. Snakes, like humans, get out and start moving around when the temperatures start to rise, and for the most part that’s totally fine.

The beginning of the World Atlas report on seven most rattlesnake infested areas in South Carolina sounds like something from a horror film. “Under the leaves, off the trail, something is always ...