Monsoons are on the way and with the rainy season, where the environment gets drenched with lush greenery and rain droplets, it lets us spot in the odds of encounters at our home gardens, dry shelters ...

When an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake was found dead — having been senselessly killed on the grounds of the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, there was quite a response to the ...

I found this snake skin stretched across a piece of birch bark in my wood pile. Credit: Photo by Bill Danielson It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds ...

Crisscrossing the 1,575 square miles which is Sonoma County are over 2,300 miles of roads. Like many, I live off one of the many battered rural roads with potholes and chunks of missing aggregate.

Garter snakes and water snakes often engage in tense standoffs over territory and resources in North American wetlands. These encounters involve displays of dominance and strategic retreats rather ...

It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds had moved in and there wasn’t much time before the snow started to fall. In a perfect world, I could have simply ...

Yellowstone National Park is home to 11 species of reptiles and amphibians. Snakes make up nearly half of that number, with several species found throughout Yellowstone’s 3,471 square miles. The park ...