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A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler.

A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler.

Snake expert William H. Martin died on August 3, 2022, after he was bitten by a Timber rattlesnake in West Virginia. He was active in locating hidden snake dens, even in his later years.

A respected snake researcher who'd been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler

Martin was perhaps the foremost authority on timber rattlers, according to another rattlesnake researcher.

William H. “Marty” Martin was a leading authority on timber rattlers, a species he had been studying since discovering a previously unknown population as a child.

A respected snake researcher who’d been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler. William H. “Marty” Martin died Aug. 3

William H. Marty Martin, an 80-year-old nationally-renowned snake researcher, died last week after he was bitten by the species of snake he had spent his entire life studying.

Snake researcher William H. “Marty” Martin died Aug. 3 after being bitten by a captive timber rattler at his home in West Virginia. He was 80.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler. William H. “Marty” Martin died Aug.