Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

Spending time outdoors in the summer months sometimes means crossing paths with one of the area’s most common reptiles – the Eastern garter snake. Often, just the sight of a snake can add a little ...

As spring approaches, we begin to see the natural world awaken. Birds are chirping, insects are buzzing and wildlife seems more abundant than ever. One welcome critter is the garter snake. Garter ...

Garter snakes and water snakes often engage in tense standoffs over territory and resources in North American wetlands. These encounters involve displays of dominance and strategic retreats rather ...

Two New Mexico river snake species nearing extinction were the subject of a lawsuit filed by a conservation group challenging reductions in habitat land set aside by the federal government for both ...

Thanks to a friend who's more observant than me, a few years back I discovered a new species of reptile in my own backyard. It was a plains garter snake, known by scientists as Thamnophis radix. I ...

Even the elusive giant garter snake may have trouble hiding in the empty expanse of dirt and mud as it was earlier this month at a conservation property on the Sutter County end of the Natomas Basin.