A few have dark spots. A quick search will show that there are 35 different species of garter snake belonging to the genus Thamnophis, coming in many different colors and patterns. Garter snakes ...

In the state of California, we have many different types of snakes ... For example, in the Sacramento area, we have a snake called the giant garter snake, and it only lives in freshwater marshes.

“Of the almost 15,000 different kinds of reptile species alive today, none of them hibernate in the way that garter snakes do.” As temperatures begin to cool, garter snakes seek out an ...

(They passed.) Two different species of snakes were tested in the new study. In one corner: North American eastern garter snakes, predators of insects and fish with a surprisingly complex social life.

and put the snakes back—but in different places. (See National Geographic's amazing snake pictures.) Eastern garter snakes join up together, a strategy for keeping warm and defending against ...