{"id":604579,"date":"2026-04-25T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604579\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:02:11","slug":"large-dead-snake-found-along-side-of-wisconsin-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604579\/","title":{"rendered":"Large dead snake found along side of Wisconsin highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">IOWA COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; Authorities found a massive dead snake along a highway in Iowa County on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Iowa County Sheriff\u2019s Office shared photos of the large snake on Facebook. It appears to be several feet long. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office didn\u2019t specify what type of snake it was, only stating that it is not native to Iowa County and was likely being kept in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office is concerned the way the snake was left along a public roadway and has alarmed some drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Iowa County Sheriff\u2019s Office is trying to find the snake\u2019s owner and learn how the snake came to the area where it was found. The office is asking the public for help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you have any information, please contact the Iowa County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 608-930-9500 (ext. 2).<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBAY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; Authorities found a massive dead snake along a highway in Iowa County on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-604579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}