Reporter Martin Espinoza has covered wildfires, floods and other natural disasters. None terrified him like his fishing trip ...

What looked like a small stick on the trail was a baby rattlesnake. Credit: ... With the little 10-inch snake coiled, hikers kept coming. "Sir, there's a little baby rattlesnake," I warned again.

When coiled, the snakes are roughly the size of a loblolly pine cone. Some Alabamians refer to the snake as a “ground rattler.” The rattle on the end of the snake’s tail is very small, ...

A small proportion of snakes actually tilted their whole coiled bodies forward, apparently to move pooled water to their mouths, as you might do with a bowl to get the last drop of soup. Credit ...