Most people don’t think about snakes in November, but some snakes are still slinking through the grasses or moving through our backyards in certain areas of Nebraska. One you may see is a nonvenomous ...

Squeals and gasps filled the North Platte Area Children’s Museum on Tuesday afternoon as children were introduced to a variety of snakes that exist in Nebraska. Dennis Ferraro, herpetologist for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...