Tiger-Lily, a reptile that looks to be from an ancient myth, is temporarily residing at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center in Kansas City. The nearly 3-foot-long conjoined female western rat snakes are 7 years old and could grow to be about 30 years old and 5-feet long. Dr. Brian Greene, associate professor of biology at Missouri State University, offers some … [Read more...] about Meet a rare two-headed snake in Kansas City

A fungus began spreading among bats in North America in 2007, causing a disease called white-nose syndrome. It has killed millions of bats. In 2014, Dr. Giorgia Auteri, assistant professor of biology at Missouri State University, began studying the dead bats. A decade later, she and other researchers have made some crucial insights about how white-nose syndrome kills bats. This … [Read more...] about Fighting back against a fungus killing bats