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 ...

Video: Florida man spots ‘rarely seen’ rainbow snake in creek TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A 7-year-old girl is recovering after she was bitten by a water moccasin at a Florida park earlier this month.

His home in Pembroke Pines, Florida, is next to a nature preserve that is an ideal habitat for water moccasins (also known as cottonmouths). The snake bit his leg, injecting him with a painful ...