Happy Snake Day! These Louisiana experts hope you'll make forked-tongue friends, not foes. “If we didn’t have snakes, we’d be ...

Snakes have long fascinated and terrified humans, evoking a mix of awe and dread. Snakes have long inspired folklore, fiction ...

People love to celebrate, and there are holidays for just about every imaginable reason. This month alone there were days to ...

Snakes do not attack humans or pets unless threatened. It is a common myth that they are aggressive. Most snake bites occur ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Two University of Virginia researchers believe that humans are genetically predisposed to be deathly afraid of snakes. Judy S. DeLoache, a U.Va. professor of developmental ...

The human brain is wired to react fearfully to snakes, including in people without a conscious fear of snakes, says a study in this month's issue of Biological Psychology. The study suggests the ...

I, however, am afraid of snakes. It's an evolutionary reflex, not a choice. I respect snakes and their ecological significance, but my subconscious reads them as the stuff of nightmares ...

In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, “visitors are afraid of venomous snakes” according to Supervisory Wildlife Biologist Bill Stiver. He recalls being at a firearms training at the Mingus ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from New York's Cornell University, who found birds that line their nests with snakeskin are less likely to have their eggs eaten by predators. "We think that an ...

When Liesen was four, his brother -- 12 years older -- would tie him to a telephone pole and put snakes down his shirt. When he attended high school, his classmates learned he was scared of snakes.