The capture of a 198-pound Burmese python in Big Cypress National Preserve has rattled many Floridians, but experts say the state must brace for bigger pythons spread across a wider area. There is ...

Conservationist Mike Elfenbein was at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida with his teen son hunting for pythons when they both spotted the largest snake they had ever seen slithering across the ...

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 ...

FLORIDA, USA — The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world, averaging between 6 and 9 feet long, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Now imagine a ...

While conducting a study about ecological impacts of invasive pythons in Florida, researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida found a nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python had swallowed a ...

NAPLES, Fla. — A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The female python weighed in at 215 pounds, was nearly 18 feet long and had ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) caught one of the heaviest Burmese pythons ever recorded. The python was caught in the Everglades Francis S. Taylor WMA ...

The invasive Burmese python slithering around the Everglades, and now in some other places in Florida, is starting to give the alligator a run for its money when it comes to the number of jaw-dropping ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new study conducted by biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reveals that Burmese pythons are capable of consuming larger prey than scientists realized. The study ...

The swamps of southern Florida are home to all manner of intimidating apex predators, but it was a new experience when a team of trackers found a 7-foot-wide mound of pythons in a marsh near Naples.

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe said this is the fattest python she’s ever seen. (Amy Siewe) Conservationist Mike Elfenbein was at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida with his teen son ...