MYAKKA CITY — Florida got its first official glimpse of a wild Burmese python on Oct. 24, 1979. Nobody knew where it came from. Maybe it had escaped its owner, a reptile fetishist, perhaps. Maybe it ...

Participants will compete July 10-19 to help remove Burmese pythons from the Everglades and raise awareness about invasive ...

In popular imagination, cannibalism in animals sounds like an extreme exception. For snakes, though, researchers say it may ...

"It feels like a lot of little needles going into your hand and then tearing through the skin." ...

A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade ...

The annual amateur Florida Python Challenge gets hoopla and cash, but scientists harvest the real goods: tons of snakes and ...

Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.

University of Florida researchers documented a surprising new threat to Burmese python eggs in the Everglades, adding to growing evidence that native wildlife is fighting back against the invasive ...

Expert at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida topped their own record for the most tonnage of Burmese python removed from ...

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades ...