It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds had moved in and there wasn’t much time before the snow started to fall. In a perfect world I could have simply ...

The key differences between garter snakes and copperheads are their scientific families, slightly different ranges, size, ...

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

The tiny baby snakes raised at the Columbus Zoo are barely the size of a pencil, but they have a big job ahead of them: saving their species. Why it matters: The plains garter snake is one of Ohio's ...

In these shallow, ephemeral waters, species like the Mexican garter snake once carved out a precarious existence. But these highly adapted, rare animals are no match for pumping, livestock grazing, ...