While on a trip to Big Bend in southwestern Texas, Jack Nailor—who travels across the country in search of unique wildlife species—had a rare close-up encounter with a gray-banded kingsnake ...

They're getting help from a centuries-old Chinese procedure -- acupuncture. In one case, a gray-banded kingsnake was having a problem with its eye. Then, Dr. Tara Reilly inserted small needles ...

Gray-banded kingsnakes come in two different color phases: alterna and blairi. The alterna typically have thinner red-orange bands while blairi have wide red-orange bands. While blairi are found ...