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Watch: Rattlesnakes flee hail storm, return to sip melting ice
FTW Outdoors via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoProject RattleCam, a collaboration between scientists at Cal Poly, Central Coast Snake Services, and...
A rattlesnake just bit your dog on a hike. Here’s what to do, experts say.
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoForest Service. Snakes are most active from April to October, the federal agency said, which only increases the likelihood you’ll run into one. “In California, the only potentially ...
Why The World’s Rarest Rattlesnake Is A ‘Scientific Masterpiece’—According To This Herpetologist
Forbes· 3 days agorattlesnake is native to Santa Catalina Island, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula in the Gulf of California. The island is relatively ...
Meet The Cannabis-Dwelling Long-Tailed Rattlesnake—And 2 Other Elusive ‘Rattlers’ Of Mexico
Forbes· 6 days agoA new paper appearing in the academic journal Toxicon breaks down the venom function of Mexico’s elusive “long-tailed rattlesnakes,” which comprises three species of closely-related ...
Brush fire in Needles jumps river into Mohave Valley
Mohave Daily News· 3 days agoA brush fire broke out in Needles just after 1 p.m. Saturday, and the blaze jumped the river into Mohave Valley roughly an hour after it began. According...
Diving into Gold Country in the World's Quickest Car
Road & Track via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut there really is gold in these hills. In fact, these are the hills, the canyons around California’s American River, east of Sacramento, where gold was...
Needing a break from L.A., artists turn a cabin near Joshua Tree into a family escape
LA Times via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoLos Angeles artists and gallerists Adam Miller and Devon Oder turned a tiny one-bedroom cabin in...
These are the most extreme temperatures in the history of every state
WJXT Jacksonville· 5 days agoAccording to a May 2024 analysis from the Associated Press, more than 2,300 deaths due to excessive...
Honoring the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert town of Boron
San Bernardino Sun· 7 hours agoWho can deny that the Joshua tree is arguably the most recognizable and beloved icon of our region’s...
Thousands die from snakebites every year in Kenya, where treatment is hard to find
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoEsther Kangali felt a sharp pain while on her mother’s farm in eastern Kenya. Kangali was rushed to a nearby health center, but it lacked antivenom to treat the snake’s bite. The 32-year-old ...