snakes

Study Shows Rattlesnake Trick Human Ears

Rattlesnakes increase their rattling rate as potential threats approach, and this abrupt switch to a high-frequency mode makes listeners, including…

2 years ago

How Will A Warm Winter Impact Bass, Flounder, Trout And…Snakes?

While looking through some of my old notes, I came across something I wrote in January 2014 called “Implications of…

2 years ago

Destructive Snake Disease Found In Museum Specimens

A recent study of museum snake specimens shows that snake fungal disease, a skin infection threatening many important snake populations, existed in the U.S. over 50 years earlier than previously thought. This rat snake…

3 years ago

“Ground Rattlers And Other TX Snake Stories

You either love them or hate them. Snakes are by far the most polarizing creature in Texas wild lands with…

3 years ago

Snakes Are Out In Winter Too

Snakes in Texas don’t really hibernate. I have heard of several serpentine encounters in recent weeks and even had some…

4 years ago

Is It a Cottonmouth Or Not?

Cottonmouths are the most frequently misidentified snake in Texas. A true cottonmouth is not a snake to be toyed with.…

6 years ago

A Look At “Counterfeit Copperheads” And Other Snakes

Copperheads Or Not During this past spring I received three emails showing images of dead snakes. Each snake appeared well…

6 years ago

Snake Armor – 2017 SHOT Show

Texas Fish & Game Hunting Editor Lou Marullo had visited with the folks over at Snake Armor and got some…

7 years ago

Dept. of Wild: Extracting Venom from Diamondback and Cobra

Snake venom is a complex substance that varies greatly among the world's thousands of species. George Van Horn of Reptile…

8 years ago

Snakemaster Speaks: A Conversation with Austin Stevens

No one knows snakes like Austin Stevens. When his program Austin Steven’s “Snakemaster” debuted on Animal Planet a decade ago,…

9 years ago