Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 261-268 (8 pages) Studies of snake demography usually involve the estimation of litter size and neonate size, but potential sources of ...

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 ...

Garter Snake at Bloomingdale park 2017-02-25 13.49.49.jpg This young garter snake was out in Bloomingdale Park during the "early spring" we had in late February. Early risers are usually males that ...

I spent most of my free time as a kid at the Evergreen Washelli cemetery. There weren't many parks in the Aurora neighborhood in the 1990s. With our two dogs, Jack and Pirate, my dad, my brother, and ...

They are the most common snake in Michigan, which is home to 17 species found slithering across yards and along park paths as warm weather moves in. They’re harmless, right? Yes and no. "They aren’t ...

Reproductive strategies of snakes are complicated by the fact that these animals have indeterminate growth. Larger females can produce more offspring, but whether female size affects the size of ...