Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two eastern garter snakes are shown. Scientists are finding that snakes exhibit more social behaviors than previously thought.

A newly discovered snake species, Hibernophis breithaupti, provides rare insight into the social behavior of snakes and fills some gaps in our knowledge of the evolution of boas, or boidae. The ...

Identifying the garter snake becomes easy through the presence of the stripes. Most types of garter snakes exhibit three prominent stripes that cover their entire bodies. These stripes run in a ...