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Missouri is home to 43 different types of snakes, with around 27 varieties found in the Kansas City area. Here’s what know if you see one next time you’re gardening or hiking.
Missouri is home to 43 different types of snakes, with around 27 varieties found in the Kansas City area. Here’s what know if you see one next time you’re gardening or hiking.
Tiger-Lily, a nearly three-foot-long western rat snake found in 2017 in southwest Missouri, will be at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center until Sept. 28.
The western rat snake, also called the black snake and the black rat snake, is one of the larger snakes you might find around Wichita. Missouri Department of Conservation While Wichita continues ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced that its famous two-headed snake will be in the metro throughout the summer starting on June 1. Tiger-Lily, the ...
A two-headed rat snake named Tiger-Lily will be traveling to different nature centers in Missouri while her home site is under construction, conservation officials announced Jan. 16.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Missouri’s rare polycephalous snake, Tiger-Lily, will find two new homes in the Kansas City metro over the summer.
Chicken snakes (Pantherophis alleghaniensis), also known as eastern rat snakes or gray rat snakes, are found in much of the same range as copperhead snakes, although not as far north or west.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced that its famous two-headed snake will be in the metro throughout the summer starting on June 1.