{"id":483660,"date":"2026-02-16T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:36:09","slug":"investigate-the-biggest-rainbow-snake-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483660\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigate the Biggest Rainbow Snake Ever Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow snakes can be found in several states including Alabama, the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. In general, these snakes with shimmering scales tend to inhabit North America\u2019s southeastern coastal plain. They mostly thrive in rivers, wetlands, forests, brackish waters, <a href=\"https:\/\/a-z-animals.com\/habitat\/freshwater\/?utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=in_content&amp;utm_content=1420506\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:freshwater;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">freshwater<\/a>, lakes, and marshes, and may even be found in mountainous regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rainbow snakes can be found in several states including Alabama, the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,245075,67434,67435,128,97637,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-483660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-corn-snake","11":"tag-rainbow-snake","12":"tag-rainbow-snakes","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-snake-species","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}