The cottonmouth, or water moccasin, is often regarded as one of the most dangerous snakes in the southern United States.

They're the stuff of nightmares, infamous critters that ply the swamps and rivers of South Florida. This area of the Sunshine State is literally crawling with potentially dangerous snakes, but one ...

If you saw a snake in your backyard, would you know if it was venomous? Sure, it's easy to tell a rattler from a rat snake, but other species are harder to identify. To give us some pointers, the ...

Venomous cottonmouth snakes are notorious for their camouflage. In fact, if you live in the southeast U.S., you may have walked right past one without even realizing it. Photographer Jeremy Ginn, of ...

Cottonmouth snakes, also known as water moccasins, are another of our state’s six venomous snake species. They’re cousins to copperheads, a venomous snake frequently seen throughout the Triangle.

John and Rose Helm were walking their Labradoodle early Monday when they had a surprise sighting of 3-to-4-foot long venomous cottonmouth snake in their Hampton Lake community of Bluffton. While not ...