In a nightmare turn of events, the snake dragged Heru off the boat and into the water, where he disappeared under the surface ...

A tour guide, who is also an experienced snake catcher, had what could have turned into a deadly encounter with a 19-foot ...

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 ...

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

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their prey and crush them.

“It’s important to remember that non-native species, such as ball pythons, should never be released into the wild,” the ...

They’re found in all sorts of places — in backyards, under a car in a driveway in Miami-Dade, crossing a housing development ...

A python's last big meal turned out to be quite a doozy. You might not believe what scientists in Florida found when they opened him up. The scientists at a Florida lab could feel something big inside ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species established across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida, including ...

A man saved a cat from being strangled and eaten by a python — by swinging the snake by its tail when it was wrapped around ...