While Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers gear up for offseason football activities, he and his family celebrate his son, ...

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The Vandegrift girls golf team is seeking a third straight state title. Young and inexperienced, it's been a surprising ...

The four types of venomous snakes native to Kansas all share the same distinctive physical feature, a heat-sensitive pit in ...

Intrigued by this “unusual” change in color, researchers caught several snakes, took a closer look at them, tested their DNA and realized they’d discovered a new species: Trimeresurus cryptographicus, ...

Later that day, we came upon a gaggle of children surrounding a snake. For a split moment, I felt like the luckiest kid in ...

In a tragic incident in Ohio, a seven-month-old infant, Elizah, fatally mauled her family's pet pit bull ... they look ideal for families with young kids, they could have some traits which ...

Rattlesnakes belong to the family of pit vipers and are native to the Americas. They are part of the Crotalinae subfamily, which includes other pit vipers like cottonmouths and copperheads.

Quentin Scott led the Virginia Valley Vipers with 41 points, Evan Makle made 5 of 8 from deep in scoring 17, while Dorian Benford Jr. and Michael Brown added 21 each as the Vipers beat the visiting ...

However, their behavior is typically more elusive, and unlike pit vipers, they will often retreat from any signs of danger rather than confront any potential threats. Cottonmouths, also known as ...

Unfortunately, Blaney's overtime restart was affected by a delayed pit stop, a problem that his crew chief Jonathan Hassler addressed after the race. Blaney's pit crew could not get the car ready ...