California is home to 50 different species of snakes—including seven species of rattlesnakes, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. If that makes your skin crawl, you're not ...

Venomous and nonvenomous snakes have a role to play in the ecosystem, but it's important to recognize them when you encounter them in the wild.

In an unassuming building at the San Francisco Zoo, 115 brilliantly colored baby snakes are being fattened up on a diet of worms. These are endangered San Francisco garter snakes and during a visit in ...

What’s the scariest thing that could happen in your bathroom? Do you worry about running out of toilet paper or spilling toothpaste all over the sink? What about a snake slithering out of your toilet?

Following are questions readers have asked about snakes in and around the house. They sometimes send photos to help with identification. Q. We've been trying to clean out the weir of our freshwater, ...