Moving houses can be a stressful period at the best of times. More so when your new home is plagued by snakes. In just two weeks, a woman who recently moved to Macoupin County, Illinois, has come ...

Thanks to a friend who's more observant than I, I recently discovered a new species of reptile in my own backyard. It was a plains garter snake, known by scientists as Thamnophis radix. I should ...

The ability of male plains garter snakes to discriminate sex pheromone trails was tested using a Y-maze. Thamnophis radix radix from Illinois and T. radix haydeni from Colorado both preferred their ...

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) – A snake with skin cancer is getting a unique treatment at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, and it seems to be making a full recovery. According to officials with the zoo, the state ...

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH)-A snake with skin cancer is getting a unique treatment at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and seems to be making a full recovery. According to officials with the zoo, the ...

HARPSTER, Ohio -- Zoos rarely buy or trap wild animals anymore. Some, in fact, are putting animals back in the wild. Sometimes these are injured animals nursed back to health, or they might have been ...

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 ...