Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

Much like the more popular hobby of bird watching for certain types of rare birds, there are Connecticut herpetologists and ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels are spreading in South Florida canals. UF wants the public's help to track this threat to native ...

Pythons are among the largest and most powerful snakes in the world, found across Africa, Asia, and Australia in a wide range ...

You might think that human eating patterns have little in common with giant snakes that kill their prey by slowly suffocating it, swallowing it whole and then not eating again for another three weeks ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain ...

A large python in the video appears to be constricting a deer beside a Florida roadway before a driver intervenes. Burmese pythons are the invasive giant snakes most commonly associated with Florida, ...

Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, they can happen almost anywhere, including along roadsides and near ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...