The average size of an adult western diamondback rattlesnake is between 4 and 6 feet. Heftier snakes can weigh nearly 15 pounds, but the average weight is three to six pounds.

The Year of the Snake began on Jan. 29, marking the start of the Lunar New Year and the end of the Year of the Dragon ...

Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, ...

Western astrology relies on the solar calendar ... the Ox likes rigidity and plans" and "they can argue due to the ox’s domineering personality." Tiger and Snake: "The snake finds the tiger to be too ...

The circle of 12 animals — the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig — measure the cycles of time. Legend has it that a god beckoned all animals to ...

Every 12 years the Lunar New Year cycles through the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac: rat, ox, tiger ... While the snake may be a venomous, malevolent and feared animal in Western civilization ...