Researchers at the University of Kentucky are searching for signs of a fungal disease impacting the state's native snakes.

There are dozens of slithery reptiles in Missouri, and with the summer heat, there's a chance you'll see more snakes. Of the nearly 50 species and subspecies of snakes in Missouri, six are venomous, ...

Even at highway speed I identified the small snake crawling across the shoulder as a prairie king snake. Old habits -- and herpetologists -- die hard. The harmless snake was determined to cross the ...