A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

Scientists have captured high-speed video of venomous snake strikes, including this dramatic footage of a copperhead. Authors ...

With stunning mountain ranges, flat coastal plains, and the rolling fields of the Piedmont plateau region, North Carolina has ...

There’s another snake that lives in North Carolina that you really, really shouldn’t try to catch or kill: the Eastern kingsnake. It eats copperheads, the only venomous snakes likely to be seen in ...

Warmer weather means more snakes out and about and in North Carolina, there are a number of venomous types. According Dr. Benjamin German, an emergency medicine physician with WakeMed, their emergency ...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- One woman's morning run took an unexpected twist when she encountered a large ball of slithering snakes in Charlotte, North Carolina. "I saw what I thought was one big ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a snake found in North Carolina as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Officials said the southern hognose snake is threatened by habitat loss, ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to add federal protections for a non-venomous snake that lives in North Carolina. The agency ...

RALEIGH -- A North Carolina woman spotted a snake slithering from the hood of her car while driving to work Friday morning. Justyn Knox said she was driving down I-40, heading into downtown Raleigh, ...

The mimic glass lizard is one of three legless varieties found in North Carolina and is losing habitat and numbers along the ...