Biologists use 'scout snakes' to pull record 177 pythons, 4,100 eggs from the Everglades

Biologists in South Florida ended the latest Everglades breeding season with a record-setting round of Burmese python ...

Conservancy group removes over 8,000 pounds of invasive pythons from Florida county, breaks record

The average weight of removed female pythons was 95 pounds, with the largest female captured this season weighing 153 pounds ...

On the prowl for invasive pythons, researchers are interrupting snake orgies

For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this ...
Miami Herald

Florida scientists set record after removing four tons of invasive Burmese pythons

The Conservancy’s python tracking team made the first capture of the breeding season with scout snake #118 “Snaquan” in November 2025, removing a 17-foot, 148 lb female python. Conservancy of ...

Florida's Burmese python challenge can't wipe out invasive snakes from the Everglades. Awareness is the real victory, officials say

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

Chinese man caught breeding 300 pythons in flat after power bill shock

An unemployed man in China has been jailed after police investigated his flat's unusually high electricity bills, only to ...

Scientist sounds alert over Burmese python predations in Naples

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

‘Queen of snakes’ lifts lid on selling £100,000 serpents, nearly having thumb eaten & the species too dangerous to keep

LOOKING after more than 300 snakes on a rural farm, Augusta Sacchetta says she knows every one of her slithery critters’ ...

Chinese man jailed after flat’s high electricity usage exposes breeding of 300 snakes

A man living alone in eastern China was sentenced to jail for breeding over 300 pythons at home. This shocking incident was ...

Python hunters captured 8,000 pounds of snake. Meet their leader

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

This Santa has a huge python slung over his shoulder, not a sack of toys

A wildlife biologist was photographed carrying a 153-pound python on Christmas Eve. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is a leader in Burmese python research and removal efforts. Ten Burmese pythons ...