Record set in Florida: a 19-foot-long Burmese python is captured in Big Cypress, revealing new clues about the ecological ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem. The snake hunt ...

As with coyotes, which have moved into suburban areas in Florida in recent years, pythons can prey on invasive Muscovy ducks, pigeons and iguanas, but also on native animals such as rats, raccoons, ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, where the state’s annual Python Challenge is underway. I pull up at dusk to a half-dozen kids ...

The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are on the menu across southern Florida, where the nonnative, invasive snakes ...

CHATSWORTH, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 15-foot python named "Big Mama" escaped from its cage in Chatsworth, leaving residents fearful for the safety of themselves and their pets. The reticulated python ...

India, being one of the countries with a very rich biodiversity, houses several species of venomous snakes. The "Big Four" snakes are said to be the most dangerous ones not due to their size but due ...

Forty-six years ago this summer, a gallon of gas cost 70 cents. “Shadow Dancing,” sung in a breathy voice by the Bee Gees’ kid brother, Andy Gibb, was disco-stepping atop the billboard charts. And ...

Hulking hunters like Burmese pythons may be famous for scarfing up deer, alligators and other enormous prey (SN: 11/25/15). But one unassuming little African snake may take the title for most outsized ...