There are only three species of venomous snakes living in the wilds of New York (many other kinds may be found in the homes of private individuals and, occasionally, escapes occur!). These are the ...

The eastern massasauga is a small rattlesnake that was once widespread and common but is now threatened in approximately 75 percent of its range. It is protected in every state or province where it ...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS ... week after being bitten by a rattlesnake while feeding them at his family’s zoo. State Sen. Parker Space, 56, was bitten by an eastern massasauga rattlesnake around ...

The sound of a rattlesnake's shaking tail can evoke a visceral response of fear in almost anyone. But in reality, snakes like the eastern massasauga have more reason to fear us than we have to fear ...

rat snakes, pythons, boa constrictors, “a bunch” of cottonmouth moccasins and eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. “I’ve been slinging a rattlesnake since I was 12,” says Mr Space ...

Monday was a new experience, however, when an Eastern massasauga ... to Jacobi hospital in New York, a neighbor to the Bronx Zoo with a clinic that specializes in snake bites.