I picked up my family and went out for dinner and saw another dead snake on the road. I began to reflect on other roadkill I had seen just in the past week: a fox, several squirrels and one opossum. I got home and went through the mail and began reading the summer 2008 issue of Defenders, the Defenders of Wildlife magazine. There’s a short article discussing roadkill. Researchers at Purdue University spent 17 months identifying 10,500 animals collected from 11 miles of suburban Indiana roads. 95 % of the animals they identified were amphibians.