Nathan Hawkins slithered into a shallow crawl space beneath a home in North Texas, armed only with a flashlight, a pair of long snake tongs and a cellphone camera. Rattlesnakes — specifically, western diamondbacks — could be seen all over, coiled up in dark corners, tucked into crevices overhead and crawling across the ground. “There’s snakes everywhere under here,” Hawkins, who owns Big Country Snake Removal, said in a video posted Sunday on Facebook. The footage showed a rattlesnake den hidden under a home outside Abilene, less than 200 miles west of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Hawkins said when rattlesnakes are bothered, they are indeed dangerous but “no more dangerous than humans,” he added, laughing.

Source: Washington Post March 20, 2019 18:56 UTC