When you think of a garter snake or a rattlesnake, do you picture it slithering through the snow in the wintertime? Probably not. Snakes are ectothermic reptiles. This means they don’t maintain their ...

Hibernation is a well-known phenomenon that several animals undergo during winter. Snakes, on the other hand, go through a similar phenomenon called brumation. This is a period of very little activity ...

Copperhead snakes can be hard to spot when they hide among dead leaves. When winter months set in, humans add on extra layers, bears hibernate and turtles dig themselves into the ground. But what do ...