A 7-year-old girl is recovering after she was bitten by a water moccasin at a Florida park earlier this month. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that 7-year-old Daniella Cabrera was playing ...

According to McCormick, only six venomous snakes are native to Florida, but the three most seen are the water moccasin (cottonmouth), the pygmy rattlesnake and the eastern diamondback. In 2024 ...

While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida ...