The garter snake also called a grass snake, is part of the family Colubridae. Its genus Thamnophis includes about 35 species ...

Spring is a slow starter on Cape Cod. Our peninsula, sticking out into cold Atlantic waters, gets mist and rain, while ...

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, ...

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 ...

This was a major threat to the existence of the red-sided garter snake population. To combat this, conservationists acted firmly. They built special tunnels underneath the highway and placed snow ...