The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the eastern indigo snake as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1978 due to dramatic population declines caused by habitat loss, overcollection for ...

HABITAT: Eastern indigo snakes inhabit pine flatwoods ... use them for shelter from the winter cold and to escape dehydrating environments. RANGE: This snake can be found in Florida, as well as ...

Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 Eastern ...

Officials released 42 Eastern indigo snakes into the wilds of Florida this week in an effort to recover local populations of ...

Years ago, a massive 8-foot-long snake roamed across the southeastern United States. Sadly, human development broke apart and ...

For the ninth consecutive year, The Nature Conservancy released eastern indigo snakes into Florida's Apalachicola Bluffs and ...

The non-venomous snakes are a "lynchpin species in the longleaf pine ecosystem," which Florida experts are working to restore Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...