If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

"They just start spreading out." Experts issue warning as massive snakes spread across US region: 'We can expect to see more ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

A 10-foot Burmese Python snake about to lay eggs is hiding and its owner wants to find it. Joseph M. Teske, 205 E. Grand Ave., told Chippewa Falls Police at 2;49 p.m. Thursday that he looked over his ...

Researchers are looking for innovative ways to eradicate the invasive species. A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida has deployed another unique ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

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 ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...