A handful of Naples, Florida, snake hunters and their 19-foot trophy Burmese python made international headlines recently as the snake is thought to be the longest Burmese python caught in the wild.

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 ...

A team of python biologists working for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida bounce along in a white four-door truck on a farm road well east of Naples. Ian Bartoszek brings the Ford to a stop, grabs ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that have significantly impacted the native mammal population. The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities ...

Raccoons, opossums, bobcats, dogs, marsh rabbits, foxes; a Burmese python will eat anything and everything, even going all the way to gobble up an alligator or a crocodile as if it were a mere insect.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has announced a significant milestone: It has removed 6,300 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons throughout its hunting season. According to the conservancy, this ...

Two dozen python hunters are outnumbered by the thousands of pythons slithering through the Everglades, but they are making a difference. "Some people like the city and the movies, I like the ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney, who covers the environment for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headed out to the Everglades, where he experienced a python hunt … of the canine kind. I’m on my hands and ...

In the dark hours after midnight, a tiny endangered mouse foraged its way through a matrix of subterranean pipes at the abandoned Nike Missile Base in Key Largo. Little did it know that a massive ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...