In the wetlands, invasive pythons and native alligators are increasingly coming into direct conflict as they compete for territory and prey. Pythons rely on powerful constriction to immobilize their ...

During the Florida Python Challenge, one family walked away with the competition’s top prize after an impressive showing in ...

This Instagram post of a Burmese python eating a 77-pound white-tailed deer is quite horrifying. It teaches us a lot about ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife is asking people to report sightings, but to stay away to avoid any attacks or incidents ...

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

It was a typical Florida story. In January 2014, Missy Williams stood at the edge of a park-and-fly in Dania Beach near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. She watched the boundary where ...

A predatory reptile that eats young crocodiles, climbs trees, swims through saltwater and has drawn comparisons to a velociraptor is quietly establishing itself across four South Florida counties. The ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WFLA)— A Florida representative joined university of Florida scientists to capture a 10-foot python they have tracked. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined UF scientists to ...

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. February was another productive month for the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program. Now in its ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Nile monitors are spreading across South Florida. They are olive-green or black, with yellow striping on their head and jaw and can grow to be 7 feet long and weigh 20 pounds ...