The slender brown-and-yellow Butler's garter snake is a mild-mannered creature that spends its time sheltering in burrows and eating earthworms. But it has sparked a heated dispute between the ...

A minor league baseball team in Wisconsin is named after a snake — the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers — so there has to be plenty of those slithering creatures around us, right? While snakes aren't as ...

This time, the debate over a removal from an endangered species list centers around a lowly garter snake -- not the majestic, all-American bald eagle. But while the discussions may be as different as ...

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 ...