The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Finding a Burmese python in your swimming pool is not a planned event — and this video captures exactly that, with the moment of discovery, the immediate scramble to get the snake out, and the full ...

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

One of Florida's most anticipated events of the year is almost here. The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight ...

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An illegally-owned 13-foot Burmese python was seized from a home in central New York state last week, officials said. On Aug. 28, an officer with the New York State Department of Environmental ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

MIAMI - Are you up for the challenge of nabbing some of the biggest snakes in the Everglades? The 2023 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. Participants this year will have the chance to win a ...

“It’s the only snake I’ve ever seen that scared me enough where I just didn’t know what to do,” one of the snake hunters said. Snake hunters captured this 19-foot long Burmese Python this week, the ...

Paleontologists from National Taiwan University recently discovered a single python vertebra dating back 400,000 to 800,000 ...