This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

They’re cousins to copperheads, a venomous snake frequently seen throughout the Triangle. Although cottonmouths ... be flattened to appear larger). lack yellow tail tips when they’re young.

Cottonmouth snakes, also known as water moccasins, are cousins of copperheads — a venomous snake frequently seen in the Triangle ... or even the detached head of a snake, can still bite because ...