Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 25 Burmese pythons have been spotted along the Treasure Coast since 2004, with many more likely slithering around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donna Kalil, 60, of Kendall, Fla., a python removal agent contracted by the South Florida Water Management District, with an ...

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 ...

Kalil once saw a ball python — a different species — get dumped at the entrance to the park. She took it home, named it Benny, and now swims with the 5 1/2-foot python in the lake behind her home.

Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force pilot. “We’d ...