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 ...

Marlin Perkins hosted Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985. Yet, many Missourians don’t know much about him.

The western coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum testaceus) is more commonly found in the deserts and arid regions of the Southwest. This snake is also known as the red racer, due to its impressive ...

Removing livestock from riparian areas is critical to curbing the extinction crisis in the Southwest. Grazed critical habitat for Northern Mexican garter snakes in Coronado National Forest, June 2021.

Burmese pythons have proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of Florida. How many of the invasive snakes live here and where?

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...