The “giant” part of its name is pretty apt – adult giant garter snakes can reach a whopping 1.62 meters (5.3 feet). Sure, ...

I found a young garter snake basking in the sun along the trail to the swamp last week. The air was still cold but the snake had found a warm spot that must have felt just right. The garter snake ...

The big berry manzanita is a poignant reminder of resilience amid California’s extreme weather cycles. The native shrub is ...

One summer day I lifted the black plastic top of our composter and jumped back, startled — a large snake was curled up on top of the compost. The yellow stripe down the center of its dark back and two ...

A snake has been filmed giving birth to 11 tiny babies in a rare case of reptilian live birth. Northern Colorado Wildlife Center, a rehabilitation zoo, shared the video of one of its snakes pushing ...

Gardeners should be glad to see snakes glide through the garden. These much-maligned reptiles consume garden pests, including slugs, grubs, mice, voles and rats. Benson Plateau hike. Garter snake.

HARPSTER, Ohio -- Zoos rarely buy or trap wild animals anymore. Some, in fact, are putting animals back in the wild. Sometimes these are injured animals nursed back to health, or they might have been ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted threatened-species status Monday to northern Mexican and narrow-headed garter snakes, saying the animals in Arizona and New Mexico could ...