If you encounter a snake but can keep your distance, the snake will nearly always refrain from striking. If you should be bitten, obviously the most important first thing is determining if the snake ...

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 ...

But in reality, snakes like the eastern massasauga have more reason to fear us than we have to fear them. The development of farms, roads and homes has drained this species' wetland habitat so much ...

RANGE: Eastern massasaugas live in an area that extends from western New York and southern Ontario ... and the number of snakes within populations — have steadily shrunk. MIGRATION: A local migrant, ...

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 ...