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

I knew at once what it was — a garter snake had caught a wood frog. I followed the sound to its source, where I discovered a three-inch frog halfway down the throat of a two-foot-long garter snake.

The garter snake also called a grass snake ... Are garter snakes venomous? They’ve long been considered non-venomous snakes.

Narcisse in Canada witnesses an annual spectacle where over 75,000 Eastern Garter Snakes emerge from winter hibernation, creating the world's largest snake aggregation during their mating season.

DESCRIPTION: The San Francisco garter snake is a slender, three-foot-long snake with an orange head, a greenish-yellow back bordered by red and black stripes, and a bright greenish-blue or turquoise ...

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool ... it has been called “drab” in color — but its irregular dark spots, small body and long, triangular head make it ...

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 ...