This week’s featured creature is fairly common, and it isn’t uncommon for it to venture into residential yards. And because of that, the western rat snake has probably met the business end of a shovel ...

On May 21, a woman in Oklahoma was driving when a 4-foot rat snake crawled onto her windshield. The local police were called to remove it, and they later identified it to be a Western rat snake.

The local police were called to remove it, and they later identified it to be a Western rat snake. Western rat snakes are non-venomous, and kill their prey by constriction. On Sunday, a woman was ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A two-headed, six-year-old western rat snake named Tiger-Lily is on display at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center in ...

The rare two-headed western rat snake has returned to the public enclosure of the Cameron Park Zoo two years after it suffered from a neck injury. The snake's name is Pancho and Lefty — yes, that's a ...

A non-venomous, two-headed snake's statewide journey has come to a halt after the reptile underwent major surgery this month. Tiger-Lily, the rare western rat snake with two heads, was set to leave ...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (CNN Newsource/KMBC/WKRC) - Her name is Tiger Lilly, and she's a celebrity. Well, as much of a celebrity as a two-headed snake can be. "She's kind of a celebrity," said Becky ...

It is never fun to discover an unwanted passenger in your car while you are driving down a busy road. It is even less fun when that passenger happens to be an enormous snake. On May 21, a woman in the ...

Let’s talk about a group of reptiles that perform great services to us and the environment in terms of rodent and vermin control. Probably more than any others, these reptiles evoke emotions ranging ...