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

Donna Kalil, one of Florida’s most famed snake hunters, usually hates seeing invasive pythons get away, but on a postcard-pretty morning a few days before Christmas, she teamed up with researchers ...

Across South Florida, giant snakes that once seemed like exotic escapees are now entrenched residents, reshaping ecosystems ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

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 Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

The battle against the invasive Burmese python by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reached a milestone after a record removal season. The removal season coincides with the breeding season of the ...

A snake in southern California was craving more than rodents and birds this week, so it stopped at an In-N-Out Burger drive-thru to get some grub. An employee at the burger chain’s Monrovia location ...