TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) — Kansans may need to watch their steps as snakes reappear in the state. KSNT News spoke with Drew Ricketts, an extension wildlife specialist with Kansas State University ...

Kansas is home to four native venomous snakes: the copperhead, massasauga rattlesnake, prairie rattlesnake and timber rattlesnake. All venomous snakes in Kansas are pit vipers, possessing heat ...

The timber rattlesnake is just one of 42 different species of snakes that live in Kansas. Most of them are harmless. Of the nearly 4,000 known species of snakes, sneks, danger noodles, spicy ...

Danny Brown Missouri Department of Conservation It’s almost baby copperhead season in Kansas. Copperhead snakes usually mate in the spring, which makes mid- to late summer the prime time to find ...

As someone raised in the Northeast, I didn’t grow up thinking about snakes. Even the common garter snake was a rare sight in my hometown. When I arrived in Kansas City early last year ...

Hospital staff told Kornelson he'd been bitten by a copperhead, though a Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks official suggested it may have instead been a massasauga rattlesnake. Copperhead ...

When I arrived in Kansas City early last year, these long friends weren’t on my mind at all. But I recently learned that there are, indeed, snakes in the Midwest. Most active during the spring ...