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

Across South Florida, giant snakes that once seemed like exotic escapees are now entrenched residents, reshaping ecosystems ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As quick as a mongoose, 90-pound, 5-foot-2-inch Lindsay McAfee pounced on the 7-foot Burmese python, pinned its head to the ground with an aluminum snake hook and stowed it in a ...

A new study into pythons and boas has for the first time found the two groups of snakes evolved independently to share similar traits, shedding new light on how the reptiles evolved. Pythons and boas ...

“Python” Ron returned to Milpitas Public Library last month to educate youngsters about snakes, lizards, tortoises and other reptiles. On June 29, as part of the library’s free Summer Reading ...

A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his ...

The gut microbiotas of terrestrial mammals are among the most widely and intensively surveyed of vertebrate-hosted microbial communities. Indeed, a large and diverse microbiota inhabits the mammalian ...

As a former National Park Service ranger, I understand the need to rein in the population of illegally released, quickly overpopulating, invasive python species in Florida dubbed “reptiles of concern.

Burmese pythons — large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes — are native to South Asia, but since they were introduced to Florida, they have become one of the most destructive invasive species the state ...

Capturing a 13-foot-1-inch Burmese python during the first weekend of the 2016 Python Challenge wasn’t particularly scary for 69-year-old Jack Merwin, even though it was the biggest snake he had ever ...

Burmese pythons have been threatening Florida’s ecosystem for years, so the state is turning to the public for help in the form of a hunting contest to cull the population. The Florida Fish and ...

Unusual car odor leads man to a startling find in Knoxville: a large python coiled in his SUV's engine. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — ...