Jackie Kovacs loves snakes. The 54-year-old mother of three spends many hours of her free time wading the creek in Sokol Park in search of the very reptiles that most of humanity goes out of their way ...

Q. In a recent column you said bushmasters are the largest pit vipers in the world. I was told pit vipers have vertical pupils, which is one way to determine if a snake is venomous. However, you ...

A “good” snake formed by flat, fist-sized rocks painted in almost every color of the rainbow is the latest addition to Walker’s Sidney Hutchinson Park. The community Rock Snake Project officially ...

There’s an old saying, “The only good snake is a dead snake.” Well, for the Israelites in the wilderness, this wasn’t the case. The only good snake for them was the one made of bronze that Moses put ...

My niece Angie and I were sitting on my deck when she calmly asked, “Is that a stick or snake in your shrub?” Sure enough a large garter snake was just hanging out in the branches sunning itself. They ...

Unless you live in one of the very few states with no native snake populations, odds are you’ve had to deal with a snake slithering through your yard at least once or twice over the years. The good ...

Summer is a prime time for snake activity, so now that the weather is warmer, here's a column originally published July 8, 2024, about a Tuscaloosa woman's fascination with the creatures. Jackie ...