If your child picks up a snake and brings it home, chances are very good it is a garter snake. These harmless reptiles occur throughout the Siouxland area. There are several subspecies of garter ...

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.

In the world of reptiles, few things are more common than the common garter snake. In the book "The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology," printed by University of Oklahoma Press, leading ...