Hunters are competing to kill Burmese pythons in the annual Florida Python Challenge this month with the No. 1 reason being the invasive snakes are killing native animals in the Everglades. Of course ...

A view of a Python displayed during an exotic animal exhibition in Bulgaria in 2009. (AP file photo) A python that escaped a pet store in Canada strangled two young boys to death as they slept ...

OXFORD, Fla. A 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of an aquarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shaunnia Hare was already dead ...

The death of two young children who died after a large python escaped from a pet store has prompted shock and outrage across the country, from people who wonder how a creature could have been allowed ...