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 ...

(In fact, the genus name of our plant is derived from the rattlesnake genus, Crotalus, in allusion to the rattling seeds.) The foliage of the plant is somewhat unusual for a member of the bean family.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you see a horned snake, you'll understand how it got its name: They have unique "horns" near their eyes. These venomous snakes live in deserts and other dry environments, and their adaptations help ...

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 ...