A stock photo shows an African Pit Viper. A similar snake bit a man who had been keeping it as a pet Mark Kostich/Getty Images Staff at VCU Medical Center in Richmond had already treated the man ...

A white rattlesnake spotted Wednesday at a Texas park has produced a collective shudder across the country, after a photo of the snake was shared thousands of times on Facebook. It’s not an ...

And rat snakes don’t seem to be special among nonvenomous snakes, Penning said. Preliminary evidence suggests that several other species are capable of moving as fast as vipers, too.