This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake, North America’s largest venomous snake species, can be found in North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, in the United States. These vipers prefer dry pine forests, pine and palmetto flatwoods, sandhills, coastal maritime hammocks, grass-sedge marshes, swamp forests, cypress swamps, mesic hammocks, xeric hammocks, sandy […]

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