New York is home to 17 snake species, but only three of them are poisonous. The poisonous species of snakes in New York are rarely seen, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation says ...

Appearance: Smallest of the three venomous snakes in New York, the massasauga is a brownish-gray snake with a row of black or brown markings along its back, but some can be all black. They average ...

Despite their fearsome reputation, only one in 500 snakebites in the U.S. are fatal thanks to widespread access to antivenom ...

A New York cyclist who tried to save a venomous snake from being run over was instead bitten by it — sending him to the hospital with a grotesquely swollen purple finger. Dan Geiger, a writer ...

The SPCA of Upstate New York is caring for 129 snakes and nearly 1,000 rats and mice to feed them that all need new, permanent homes.

A New York man dodged death when he was bit by a venomous snake while bike riding in New Jersey. Dan Geiger was pedaling along the Palisades Cliffs recently when he saw a snake in the middle of ...