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dark tail with rattle; and the infrared-sensitive pit between its eye and nostril. HABITAT: Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes require large tracts of open-canopy habitats. Although the snakes once ...

This is the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, the largest in North America ... diamond patterns across its back and its mighty rattling tail. Its venom is a deadly cocktail that targets blood ...

The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox), for example, is the most common rattlesnake in Texas. It can be found nearly everywhere in the state, except in a few of the far eastern regions.