Q: This garden snake [in the photo accompanying this article] was in my yard a couple of weeks ago. I think it has to be an eastern garden snake, but it is much bigger than any I’ve ever seen. (About ...

The University of Michigan is making "hiss"-tory, with the recent addition of thousands of creepy crawlers to the extensive research collection in the Museum of Zoology. And for goodness "snake," over ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan and Oregon State University are tight like the grip of a boa constrictor in at least in one field, A donation of 30,000 snake specimens from Oregon State to ...

Snakes are legless, slithering reptiles that can be found worldwide, except in Antarctica. There are more than 2,900 species of snakes, with 140 species known in the United States. One species ...

PHOENIX — A threatened species for nearly a decade, the narrow-headed garter snake is getting new life and help from scientists at the Phoenix Zoo. Tara Harris, director of conservation and science at ...

Watching thousands of snakes writhing together may not be for everybody, but at the Narcisse Snake Dens, it is the ultimate springtime spectacle. For decades, snakes were believed to be solitary ...