Most gopher snakes people run into are in the three- to six-foot range, but records show some outliers. The National Park ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - We live out in orchard country, so we're never far from nature. Our home, particularly an unfinished part of the basement, seems, much to Ellen's consternation, to be habitat for mice.

A snake that looks similar to and sounds like a rattlesnake but isn't a rattlesnake? Meet the gopher snake, the biggest snake ...

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 ...