If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

Professional snake removal experts captured a 30-pound, 6½-foot Burmese python from a Miami-Dade residential area, preventing potential danger to pets and children.

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...