A nearly eight-foot long indigo snake was recently found near Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia – and local ecologists say its massive size is good news. Indigo snakes, the longest native snakes in the U.S., once lived throughout the Southeast. Now extinct in Alabama and Mississippi, the nonvenomous species is listed as Federally threatened, with conservation efforts in Georgia and elsewhere working to protect its future. Finding such a large specimen, the biggest seen in Georgia in years, is good news – experts say it means the species is thriving in the southeast stretches of the state.
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