Video of a Florida alligator gliding across Everglades water with a large Burmese python clamped in its jaws has become a ...

The snake’s head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter Mike Kimmel once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm causing blood to spurt in rhythm with his racing heart. Alone ...

SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in a contest that plays out like a Florida-fied "Cannonball Run." You can’t have a ...

Carpet pythons are familiar Australian snakes, often unnoticed due to effective camouflage. These non-venomous reptiles ...

On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to remove as many of the invasive animals as possible from the Everglades. 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 ...

Catching a python can be very challenging during the Florida Python Challenge. But when one is caught, there are rules for how to kill the invasive.

Years of snake-tracking data reveal the conditions that boost success and that could be incorporated into an app to aid in ...

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of Burmese pythons slithering around in the grass and bushes in Florida. No one knows for sure, but it's a lot invasive snakes and the population has been ...