While Indiana is known for its charming rural towns, it also has beautiful lakes that appeal to nature-lovers across the country. Popular spots such as Lake Monroe, Patoka Lake, or even the renowned ...

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

Snake fungal disease (SFD), caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, is an emerging pathogen of snakes identified in more than 15 genera of captive and free-ranging snakes in 21 states. SFD is ...

Evidence of a disease that can disfigure and kill some snake species has been located in three Indiana counties. According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, snake fungal disease was ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Indiana lawmakers say they are open to hearing more on how laws could be stronger when it comes to constrictor snakes. One last week killed 36-year-old Laura Hurst, of ...

In a past column I featured the mud snake, now extirpated from Indiana. I also said in that column that while we do have a few cottonmouths in Indiana, I have never had one brought to me to identify.

A west-central Indiana town is considering restrictions on snakes after a woman was strangled by an 8-foot-long python in a home owned by the local sheriff. Town Council president Randy Jones believes ...

OXFORD, Ind. – A town council in Indiana is considering creating an ordinance that has specific restrictions for constricting snakes like the 8-foot reticulated python found wrapped around the neck of ...