WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A snake that escaped from its enclosure at the Great Plains Nature Center turned up in an unlikely place. According to the center’s Facebook page, a rat snake was able ...

However, the common name of a species of nonvenomous snake that inhabits this area is pretty straightforward. The common name for the Great Plains Ratsnake not only describes where it prefers to ...

They are the Great Plains Rat snake, Western Rat snake, and the Bullsnake. All are known as Colubrids; which in Latin translates literally to snake! These snakes, most often strike at and catch ...

However, the common name of a species of nonvenomous snake that inhabits this area is pretty straight forward. The common name for the Great Plains Ratsnake not only describes where it prefers to ...

diamond-patterned Great Plains rat snake to a room packed with children Aug. 27 at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center. Members of the Arkansas Herpetological Society, Sloan and ...

A focus on sustainability in agriculture was the purpose of a gathering in Wichita this week. No-till on the Plains held its 29th Annual Winter Conference.

There are two kinds of rat snakes in the Skiatook area, the Black Rat Snake and the Great Plains Rat Snake, but the black rat snake is by far the more common. Rat snakes are nonvenomous.

For most of us, what happens in our sewer lines is a case of “out of sight, out of mind,” but once you see this photo, tweeted out by whoever runs the social media account for San Antonio ...

the gray rat snake, eastern rat snakes, the great plains rat snake, leopard snake, four lined snake, aesculapian snake and many other species. "New World" rat snakes dwell in North America, where they ...

Photo by Celia Storey Jeremy Sloan slides his hook under a copperhead while Brad Birchfield talks about the distinctly different colors of a Great Plains rat snake. Birchfield says the nonvenomous ...