The yellow-bellied sea snake is truly a creature of the sea. It is one of the few snakes adapted to live its entire life in the water, rarely, if ever, coming onto land.

This 2015 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation shows a female yellow-bellied water snake at the Cape Girardeau, Mo., Conservation Nature Center that for the second time in two ...

Officials at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center say a female yellow-bellied water snake reproduced on her own in 2014 and again this summer. The ...

This is a yellow-bellied water snake. Southern Missouri swamplands are a good place to find this snake. It lives on small fish, frogs and crawdads. Receive Daily Headlines FREESign up today!

Officials at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center say a female yellow-bellied water snake reproduced on her own in 2014 and again this summer.

World Atlas calls 4 Mississippi lakes the most snake-infested in the state. Know how to ID venomous snakes and tell them apart from common watersnakes.

Adult yellow-bellied water snakes are darker, usually appearing as a solid shade of dark brown, green, or gray, with a yellow underbelly. When fully grown, they can reach a length of up to 48 inches.

The plain-bellied water snake can be easier to ID because, as the name suggests, its belly is a plain yellowish or cream color. That’s a dead giveaway, especially if you see it up on a branch or ...

A second yellow-bellied sea snake has washed up on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Department of Conservation (DoC) was alerted to a sea snake at Little Bay in the Coromandel via the DoC hotline.

Officials at the Missouri Department of Conservation's Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center say a female yellow-bellied water snake reproduced on her own in 2014 and again this summer.