The Lowcountry is home to 38 snake species and six of them are venomous.

Let’s say you’re hiking in Jones Gap State Park enjoying a beautiful spring day and then you feel something hit you, something like a rubber band snapping on your leg. Your leg starts burning and ...

Following are questions readers have asked about snakes in and around the house. They sometimes send photos to help with identification. Q. We've been trying to clean out the weir of our freshwater, ...

Apparently copperheads aren’t fans of heatwaves either. Research has found that heatwaves can make venomous snakes more active. An Emory University study found that snakebites increase by almost 6% ...