The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox ... reducing the likelihood of snake bites. Despite their venomous bite, diamondbacks are not aggressive and will strike only as a last resort.

Humphlett was searching for snakes Dec. 18 on Shired Island in Dixie County when an eastern diamondback rattlesnake bit his leg, WCJB reports. “I just felt, out of nowhere, this intense pain ...

Gainesville wildlife enthusiast and social media star David Humphlett is recovering at UF Health Shands Hospital after being bitten in December by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Humphlett, 25, ...

“Untreated eastern diamondback rattlesnake bites have a fatality of 10-20%,” according to the National Library of Medicine.