If you’re walking through the flat desert of Phelan, California, and you’re bitten by a Southern Pacific rattlesnake, you will start to bleed badly. The snake’s venom is loaded with ...

It’s rattlesnake season ... Starting each spring, Southern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus helleri), the most common species in the L.A. area, come out of hibernation to mate.

Their quarry is Crotalus oreganus, the Northern Pacific rattlesnake. Armed with snake tongs and 5-gallon buckets, the group taking to the field last month is part of a 30-year quest by CWU ...

There are around dozen snake species in Washington, all of them being non-poisonous except the northern pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus oreganus). This species is widely spread from Canada ...

Seven species of the snake can be found in the state, but in L.A. county the most common is the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake, according to Jeffery Langley, the public safety superintendent for the ...

A deadly rattlesnake seems to be planning attacks ... Two related hunting rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis and Crotalus molossus, have previously been reported manipulating vegetation near prey ...