Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus), or water moccasins, are venomous snakes found in the southeastern United States. They're called cottonmouths because the insides of their mouths, which they ...

I shot a snake last Sunday. Lucky for the snake I was using a camera. A lot of Oklahomans would have used something more lethal. "That is one of the prettiest Northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon ...

Take a second look before you condemn one of the plentiful, and harmless, water snakes with the reputation of its less-friendly cousin, the western cottonmouth. Also known by the name water moccasin, ...

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 ...

Gape-limited predators, such as snakes, might rely on phenotypic plasticity to cope with variation in prey size, but experimental studies have found mixed evidence for plasticity in snake head ...