The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

Its scientific name is Crotalus horridus. Crotalus is derived from krotalon, Greek for the rattle. Most of the world’s ...

Let's begin. Read more: 13 Creatures To Beware Of When Adventuring In California's Deserts We begin our list with the highly common Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). The ...

According to a University of Michigan study, snakes won the evolutionary jackpot, partly because of their speed. These stealthy ambush predators can really get moving when they need to chase down prey ...

Back in 1984, at 34, I decapitated a 42-inch-long rattlesnake. Crotalus horridus was sunning itself on the gravel driveway of ...

A young Canadian biologist named Dennis Jørgensen, now employed by the World Wildlife Fund, studied movements of the prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis) on the outskirts of Medicine ...

The Los Angeles Zoo, in collaboration with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and San Antonio Zoo, has joined forces to participate in a significant international recovery program for the federally thre ...

Anacondas belong to the boa family and use their long, muscular bodies to constrict their prey. The eastern diamondback (Crotalus adamanteus) is a rattlesnake and thought to be the world's heaviest ...

It’s said that lions and tigers stalk the semiarid scrubland of Paraguay’s Chaco region. Yet this is the heart of South ...

Herpetological Monographs 16:1-25. Aldridge, R. D. 2002. The link between mating season and male reproductive anatomy in the rattlesnakes Crotalus viridis oreganus and C. v. helleri. Journal of ...

The Los Angeles Zoo, in collaboration with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and San Antonio Zoo, has joined forces to participate in a significant international recovery program for the federally ...