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: ...

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 ...

Garter Snake vs Copperhead: Scientific Classification The garter snake also called a grass snake, is part of the family Colubridae . Its genus Thamnophis includes about 35 species of snakes.

The garter snake rescue is Wild Arc’s first medical emergency of the year, and is notable as reptile and amphibian rescues ...

The paradise tree snake lives in a tropical rainforest. It has a dark body with beautiful spots of green, yellow, and red ...

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 ...

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, ...

Reptile enthusiast Adrian Theroux-Nielsen works with many St. Albert-area snakes and snake owners as manager of Oasis Fish ...

Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.

One well-documented example of an arms race adaptation is the potent poison in the skin of the newt Taricha granulosa, which is food for the garter snake. Over time, some genetic variants of the ...