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The San Francisco garter snake has been on the federal endangered species list for more than half a century.
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A San Francisco Airport Site Is Crawling With Snakes—And That's a Good Thing

An endangered species is thriving at a once-blighted lot, but climate change and other challenges threaten its future.
Ashley Stimpson July 27, 2021
Among the most successful reptiles in North America, garter snakes thrive from the tropics to the edge of the Arctic.
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What Can 26,000 Snakes Teach Us About Climate Change?

Oregon State University's massive collection is helping researchers learn how animals adapt to changing environments.
Jack Tamisiea April 22, 2021
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Podcast: Narcisse Snake Dens

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team April 20, 2021
Wrangling an eight-foot king cobra is all in a day's work for Ajay Giri, field director of the Agumbe Reserve Research Station in western India.
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Meet the King Cobra Rescue Team That Saves Both People and Snakes

A research station in India is on call 24/7 to aid wayward reptiles in need.
Mahima A. Jain February 24, 2021
Marlborough, Connecticut

Snake Rock

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.
Iwakuni, Japan

Iwakuni Shirohebi Shrine

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.
Six of the snakes left behind the Farringdon Community Fire Station, in a suburb of Sunderland, England.
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What Were 29 Exotic Snakes Doing in a U.K. Trash Bin?

Wriggling in pillowcases, trying to stay warm after being illegally abandoned.
Jennifer S. Holland February 24, 2020
Two of the "Fantastic Grandmothers" document a greater sea snake, photo-identifying its uniquely patterned tail for their growing database.
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The Snorkeling Grannies of New Caledonia

They're senior citizens turned citizen scientists. And their work is changing marine biology, one sea snake at a time.
Sofia Quaglia January 27, 2020
Okay, this guy's a snake.
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How a Fossilized Snake With Legs Fits Into the Lineage of Lizards

“Snakes are just fancy lizards,” says one evolutionary biologist.
Sabrina Imbler December 6, 2019
Some of the many stone snake head sculptures.
Tlalnepantla, Mexico

Pyramids of Tenayuca

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
Abiquiu, New Mexico

Ghost Ranch

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Bomi Blue Lake.
Tubmanburg, Liberia

Bomi Blue Lake

An abandoned mine pit is now a beautiful, colorful attraction.
This viper's "horns" are actually scales.
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The Horned Viper That Buries Itself Up to Its Eyeballs

Meet the most metal of the North African snakes.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 25, 2019
Yes, that's a venomous fang.
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A Hunter-Gatherer Ate an Entire Rattlesnake and We Have the Poop to Prove It

"We know that the person must have lived to the point of defecation."
Matthew Taub April 24, 2019
Oh, the things that hit our earholes.
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Overheard at Atlas Obscura in 2018

From bioluminescent fungus to random bone houses, here's what we talk about at the office.
Ella Morton December 27, 2018
A painted stone serpent head with the backdrop of the zocalo.
Mexico City, Mexico

Serpents of the Great Temple

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.
Gastro Obscura

Inca Trail Snake Liquor

In the Peruvian jungle, some families still make this homemade spirit.
Venom Sotol at La Revolución in San Jose del Cabo.
Gastro Obscura

Venom Sotol

Northern Mexico's lesser-known spirit gets a snake-based infusion.