From rattlesnakes to cottonmouths, venomous snakes remain a backyard reality across much of the U.S. Here are the most common ...

In Arizona, there are 13 species of rattlesnakes; the western diamondback is the most commonly spotted. A western diamondback rattlesnake “tastes” the air at the Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary.

At about 7 a.m. Thursday, an 81-year-old man was attempting to retrieve a golf ball hit into brush when he was bitten in the left ankle, a Green Valley Fire District news release said.

The 19-page report by the U.S. Forest Service that appeared in a scientific journal in early May involved nearly 6,000 sage grouse samples collected from 2005 to 2015 and maps of some 1,200 mating ...