Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is the most efficient way to nab the lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by ...

In southern Australia, a government agency is trialing the assistance of hardworking detection dogs to help locate a protected python species for improved conservation efforts, ABC News Australia ...

LITTLE ROCK -- Reptile enthusiasts have expressed opposition to a new restriction that adds five species of large Asian and African pythons to Arkansas' list of prohibited captive wildlife. The ...

Burmese pythons — large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes — are native to South Asia, but since they were introduced to Florida, they have become one of the most destructive invasive species the state ...

NAPLES, Fla. – A Burmese python nearly 12 feet long swims alongside a levee as Donna Kalil tries to coax it out of the water. She squats at the edge of the gravel road with one boot in the water. The ...

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State contractors caught the heaviest Burmese python ever recorded for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission a few months ago. Naples-based FWC hunters caught the giant python in Big ...

South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

The "Python Challenge" is being put on by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which is offering cash prizes to whoever brings in the longest python and whoever bags the most pythons ...

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in late October, an apex predator slithered through the unmowed grass of an East Central Florida canal bank. The 12-foot-long Burmese python soaked in the sun’s rays as ...

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 ...

Reptile enthusiasts have expressed opposition to a new restriction that adds five species of large Asian and African pythons to Arkansas' list of prohibited captive wildlife. The approved regulations ...