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

When one imagines snakes, the mind often wanders to sunny, lush places: jungles, deserts, tropical forests. But nature loves ...

While most snakes retreat deep underground to avoid subzero temperatures, some populations of Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis ...

Remarkably, certain garter snakes possess an astonishing ability to survive freezing temperatures. When caught in sudden cold ...

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

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

Mikayla, who works for Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, was walking outside her house “barefoot (mistake number one) and wasn’t watching where I was walking (mistake number two)”, she wrote in a ...

The red-sided garter snake can survive with around half of the water inside its body frozen, at temperatures of -2.5 °C (27.5 ...

They creep, slither and slide over and around each other by the dozen and now there's a webcam so that anybody can watch them ...