Seventeen timber rattlesnakes were found in a West Virginia home this week, and the gathering was no accident, say West Virginia Natural Resources Police. A man had been catching the venomous ...

Out of the 23 species of snakes that live in West Virginia, only two of them are venomous. If you learn to identify those two—the northern copperhead and timber rattlesnake—there’s no need ...

With the first day of spring just behind us, temperatures will start to rise and snakes will start to become more active. A ...

Photojournalist Lauren Pond was covering a worship service led by a snake-handling Pente­costal pastor when he was fatally bitten by a yellow timber rattlesnake in May. She had been photographing ...