Swimmers beware: It's snake season in Texas and a video of a large venomous snake swimming on the surface of a lake in West Texas is unlocking some new fears. The Texas Parks and Wildlife ...

That is our most ubiquitous rattlesnake statewide. The quintessential diamondback has the black ... part of the glorious ecological landscape of Texas. So there’s no getting away from them.

A young Western diamondback rattlesnake like this one, the most widespread and populous species of venomous snake in Texas, was spotted last week at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Here's what ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) shared a video this week of a diamondback rattlesnake "traveling" on the O.H. Ivie Lake near San Angelo, Texas. TPWD featured the snake video as part ...

Stoddard relocated the snake from the walkway to some bushes. Charles Watson, associate professor of biology at Texas A&M, identified the serpent as a venomous Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. "We ...

Lives near: Found all across Texas, except for the easternmost part. Crotalus atrox, western diamondback rattlesnake or Texas diamond-back, venomous snake against white background Rattlesnake tail ...

Paul Crump, a herpetologist at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ... The most common one people will see is the Western diamondback rattlesnake. That is our most ubiquitous rattlesnake ...

It’s that time of year in Texas when rattlesnakes are slithering out ... Looks like a smaller and thinner version of the western diamondback, with dark diamond-shapes down its back.

SWEETWATER — Miss Texas gripped the body of the decapitated Western diamondback rattlesnake, blood trickling onto her pink acrylic nails. Her silver crown glittered from the white overhead lights.