While rattlesnakes are highly venomous creatures, they may also be one of the more misunderstood species on the planet. This ...

Since Barbon states that a mother rattlesnake “may only give birth once or twice in her life,” conservation efforts around snake reproductive areas (for rattlesnakes or otherwise) are ...

The University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum discovered an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake inside a culvert earlier this summer, and that snake has now given birth!

And throughout the country, most habitats have more snakes present in early fall than at any other time of the year, even spring. The explanation is a simple one — most North American snakes are born ...

A Eastern massasauga rattlesnake gave birth to about a dozen babies at the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor Township.

It’s birthing season in the Heartland for venomous snakes, including timber rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths.

Somewhere in a rodent burrow or rock crevasse on the eastern side of Washington, a large female snake is giving birth to a litter of fully formed babies. In a week or two, they’ll get rattles – but ...

Ovoviviparous snakes also give birth to live young, but the eggs hatch inside the mother’s body before the babies are born fully developed. Live-bearing snakes, such as rattlesnakes, often have ...