It has diamond shaped patterns on its scale, hence this is why it is called Diamond back.
An image of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake is posted above.
See the image above of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake.
Male and female rattlesnakes look very similar. Only a snake keeper with a lot of experience would be able to tell the difference in gender without probing the snake. The length, width and taper of the tail would give a trained keeper a good idea of gender.
Indigo snakes as well as kingsnakes will eat rattlesnakes as well as cottonmouths. Take a look at this video:
NCWRC has pictures you can look for. Venomous snakes of NC are: Northern Copperhead Southern Copperhead Timber Rattlesnake Pygmy Rattlesnake Esatern diamondback rattlesnake Eastern coral snake Cottonmouth
A rattlesnake.
Wikipedia quotes the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) as attaining an average length of 91-152 cm (35.8-59.8 in) - but there are exceptions as with all animal species. The full Wikipedia article is available via the related link.
A baby Diamondback Terrapin is called a gaydbt
Baby snakes are known as snakelets or neonates (a newly-born snake) or hatchlings (a newly-hatched snake).
There are several types of rattlesnakes, but the easiest way to identify them is by the rattles at the end of its tail and the arrowhead shape of its head. usually sharp fangs If you mean a 'rattlesnake' - see the image above Rattle Snakes look like a regular snake. Except it looks like they have small pieces of corn on the rear end of their body. Well, they all look different, but they have the tell tale rattle on their tails.
There is no species called the "desert rattlesnake" but there are dozens of species that live in the desert. The image above is one of them.
look it up online...diamondback terrapin
a rattlesnake uses mimicry to look like other animals