Xander Robin has been making movies for years. But the director had never filmed anything quite like this: 10 grueling nights hanging out with amateur snake hunters in the Florida Everglades. The Palm ...

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 ...

It was a chilly December day when Ian Bartoszek and a team of other biologists hiked into the wilderness outside Naples to track pythons. They were homing in on Loki, a 13-foot, 52-pound male. But ...

Residents of downtown Los Angeles were recently shocked to discover a gigantic 20-foot python in a dumpster near an apartment complex. Locals originally thought the snake was fake, but further ...

The Burmese python remains one of the most prominent invasive species in Florida. With no natural predators in the area, their numbers continue to rise, and so does their effect on the environment.

Good luck finding pythons, the invasive species that has been slithering around the Everglades for years and destroying the ecosystem. But just because pythons are difficult to find doesn't stop ...

MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. YEAH. IF ONE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS CALLED YOU AND SAID HELP, THERE’S A BURMESE PYTHON IN MY YARD, WOULD YOU BELIEVE THEM? NOPE ...

In something straight out of a horror movie, scientists have found that Burmese pythons can open their mouths even wider than we previously thought. These snakes' enormous jaws may be able to open as ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his ...

One of Florida's most anticipated events of the year is almost here — the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The Burmese python is a large, nonvenomous constrictor snake that is an invasive species in ...

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A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT DAVID THANK YOU. WELL, A WOMAN SAYS IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT A YELLOW AND WHITE PYTHON WAS HANGING OUT IN HER BACKYARD. SHE SAYS SHE SAW IT LAST WEEK, BUT HAS NOT SEEN THE ...