You’re enjoying the evening breeze in your California backyard when you notice something dark and scaly slithering up a tree branch, Startled, you take a second look — and catch a glimpse of an ...

As you can see from the photograph featured in today’s column, snakes can swim. The picture, taken by a marine deputy with the Boise County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month, shows a large gopher ...

Snakes — even when they're not venomous or monstrously huge (looking at you, anacondas!), many people are still afraid of them. According to a 2016 study published in medical journal Psychiatry ...

As an outdoor educator I am frequently called upon to visit classrooms and increase student awareness and curiosity about nature. In the bigger picture, what I am doing is introducing them to broad ...