SF News Over 1,000 Endangered (and Gorgeous) Snakes Were Recently Discovered Near SFO San Francisco garter snakes — one of the rarest, arguably most breathtaking reptiles in the United States — were once thought to number as little as a thousand examples in the wild; some 1,300 more are now believed to exist on a 180-acre parcel of wetlands near SFO.
misc Update: Later 'Gator By now the tale of Jameth and his croc is San Francisco lore. Happening upon the severed plastic head of the reptilian creature at Church & Market, Jameth took pity upon the thing