The four types of venomous snakes native to Kansas all share the same distinctive physical feature, a heat-sensitive pit in ...

Kansas is home to 42 different native species of snakes, which are active during the warmer months between late March and November — the same time period when people are most active outdoors ...

Intrigued by this “unusual” change in color, researchers caught several snakes, took a closer look at them, tested their DNA ...

In a remote forest of northern Myanmar, a 2-foot-long creature moved along the ground. Something about it caught the attention of visiting scientists — and for good reason. It turned out to be a new ...

It turned out to be a new species. A team of researchers spent several years visiting sites throughout the Himalayas to survey reptiles. The project focused on a group of snakes, known as wolf ...

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, including Cincinnati's, there's ...

The ones cheering on the sidelines of every Kansas State game, get to be cheered on once a year in Orlando, Florida.

The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...

For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and the stories are written in ancient creatures’ ...