shadow snakes are totally unpredictable and difficult to photograph, but you can see the bands during a total solar eclipse by looking at a plain-colored surface right before and after the moon ...

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

They could have been just about any dark, solid-colored snake. I didn’t know much about snakes. I did know, however, that it was unusual for them to be out and about under the midday sun and ...