Garden snakes, also known as gartner or garter snakes, can actually help your garden by eating pests, which reduces the need for chemicals. Typically, they hunt in the early morning, late ...

You can give garter snakes pinkies ... but pay close attention to their overall weight. These snakes can eat so frequently ...

Like water snakes, narrow-headed garter snakes are highly aquatic and eat fish. In strong river currents their namesake elongated heads reduce drag from the water as they strike out on prey. These ...

One well-documented example of an arms race adaptation is the potent poison in the skin of the newt Taricha granulosa, which is food for the garter snake. Over time, some genetic variants of the ...

And voracious exotics like bullfrogs, which eat the snakes, have added to the species' woes. The Center launched our campaign to protect Mexican garter snakes under the Endangered Species Act in 2003.