The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

Researchers have identified Yakacoatl tlalli as a nonvenomous, subterranean new snake species from the Balsas River basin.

New Jersey is home to two venomous snakes, the Timber Rattlesnake and the Northern Copperhead. Here's where copperheads can ...

Researchers Bruna Falcão and Omar Entiauspe-Neto have noticed that hundreds of snake species are more cannibalistic than previously thought. The majority of cannibalistic snakes are found in the ...