Florida Rattlesnake Record

Augustine called brandon booth who owns a 1 trapper man on sunday to come get the snake from near the entrance to the.

Florida rattlesnake record. This is a 15 foot western diamondback rattlesnake the largest ever caught on record one bite from a snake of this size would contain enough venom to kill over 40 full grown men notice the girth of this snake as compared to the cop s leg in the first picture and he is not a small man at least it wasn t found in a wal. Liveabout uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Allegedly measuring 9 feet 1 inch in length and weighing 97 pounds this is one mammoth rattlesnake. Other versions of this erumor with the same photos allege that this is the deadly western diamondbacked rattlesnake and was caught near meza arizona.

However other venomous snakes may rival this species in weight. In 2009 the florida times union reported on this very incident. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake caught yesterday at the st. The eastern diamondback rattler has the most lethal bite.

A resident at tuscany village townhomes near florida 16 and interstate 95 at st. A much exaggerated snake tale. However the authenticity of this image is suspect for rattlesnakes are not known to grow to such proportions. These snakes are highly venomous and pose a genuine danger to humans.

It was an eastern diamondback rattlesnake that measured 7 feet 3 inches in length. The largest reported eastern diamondback captured was in st. Circulating via forwarded email since 2005 there is a viral image of what appears to be a giant rattlesnake killed in texas. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake the timber rattlesnake the dusky pygmy rattlesnake the coral snake the cottonmouth and the copperhead.

According to the university of florida the record size for that type of snake is 8 feet so this was definitely. Freer s serpent is challenged as the world s biggest rattlesnake by a winding edifice in tucson arizona covering a walkway to simulate being inside the snake. Guinness world records has recorded no world record for the largest rattlesnake as of 2014. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest rattlesnake species and is one of the heaviest known species of venomous snake with one specimen shot in 1946 measuring 2 4 m 7 8 ft in length and weighing 15 4 kg 34 lb.

However there are just 6 venomous snakes in florida. A forwarded email with photos of a captured snake saying that a gigantic eastern diamondback rattlesnake measuring 15 feet in length was caught in st. Augustine resident but as the times union reported. Augustine outlet biggest ever caught on record.

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