The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...

Wildlife experts call it a “breeding aggregation.” It’s a more respectable way of saying snake sex party. A Burmese python nicknamed “Argo” led researchers to a 15-foot-long, 115-pound female python ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildlife biologist next to a breeding ball; holding up a Burmese python. (Photographs courtesy Ian Bartoszek / Conservancy of ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...

Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...

The breeding female python, found in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, contained 73 developing eggs Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A North African python, which also goes by the menacing name “rock python,” killed a West Kendall family’s 60-pound Siberian Husky. Florida already has a pretty bad snake problem, what with the ...

The ball python is the most commonly traded African species under CITES, with more than 3 million of these reptiles exported since 1975, mainly from Togo, Ghana and Benin. Listed under CITES Appendix ...

The war being waged against Florida's most notorious pest experienced a recent battlefield victory. It's a sign humans could finally be gaining ground against one of the greatest invasions ever to ...