A tourist was walking down a trail in Savage Gulf State Park in Tennessee when a rattlesnake believed to be a timber ...

While thousands of people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, deaths are uncommon, according to the ...

Matthew Griffith of the Grundy County Emergency Management Agency said a Timber rattlesnake is believed to have been involved in the incident last Friday. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ...

The victim, who was not identified, was hiking at the Savage Gulf State Park -- about 60 miles northwest of Chattanooga -- ...

The unidentified male hiker, who was in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park on Aug. 8, picked up what was likely a Timber rattlesnake, which has “venom potent enough to kill a human,” but whose “bites ...