Each spring as the sun begins to warm the land, the largest gathering of snakes in the world emerges from their underground lairs in Narcisse, Manitoba. They have one thing on their mind - mating.

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 ...

There may be 1,000 to 2,000 individual San Francisco garter snakes remaining in the wild today; the snake is now so imperiled that it is difficult to get enough data to estimate the population with ...