Cottonmouth snakes are often called water moccasins and are one of only four venomous snakes found in North America.

The tip of a juvenile's tale is often yellow, which the venomous snake uses as a lure to attract prey, while older adults are completely black or brown. Taxonomists had once split the cottonmouth ...

If you live in Kansas you share your state with many different types of snakes. Kansas is home to more than 40 snake species ...

Western cottonmouths like to chow down ... there are 6 different kinds of venomous snakes: copperhead, cottonmouth, timber ...

The angler is uncertain what happened next, but the snake was probably too tired from fighting out of its weight class to do anything about the fish. While the western cottonmouth, an ill-tempered ...

This species is frequently called or mistaken for a cottonmouth (water moccasin); this latter species is a large venomous snake that does not occur within our state borders ... with scattered ...

Running through the lightly-populated Plains States and Upper Midwest, the Missouri is home to a multitude of water snakes, including the deadly water moccasin or cottonmouth. This is one of only ...

“There were 15 (lizards) in all,” Lundsteen said, then added to my heebie-jeebies when he told me about another job involving a cottonmouth snake that ... grown up in western Kansas where ...

In 2024, scientists announced another record-breaking fossil snake. Vasuki indicus was found in western India and lived around 47 million years ago. It’s estimated to have been 11–15 metres long.