It’s a world-first event: the hatching of Ball Python eggs that are breaking new ground in reptile breeding. Watch the ...

Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...

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

A new reptile genetics testing company, Phenome, is working on fully mapping out the genomes of a number of reptile species for the first time. The company first made its debut this year at the North ...

The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities damaged by storms like Hurricane Andrew in ...

It’s possible that their population numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Researchers reveal major key in hunting down ...

Hurricane Andrew of 1992 compounded the problem, releasing hundreds of pythons when it destroyed a python breeding facility in the Everglades. Independent hunters have pursued the snake for decades to ...

Two dozen python hunters are outnumbered by the thousands of pythons slithering through the Everglades, but they are making a difference. "Some people like the city and the movies, I like the ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held here. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from halfway ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...