US closes a 4-kilometre road twice a year as thousands of snakes, including venomous rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, migrate between a swamp and limestone cliffs with changing temperatures | World News
A road in southern Illinois, United States, has an unusual reason for closing to traffic twice a year: thousands of snakes and other reptiles need to cross it during their seasonal migration. Known as Snake Road, the 4-kilometre stretch in Shawnee National Forest connects LaRue Swamp with the limestone cliffs of LaRue-Pine Hills. The animals…