A video of the Reticulated Python climbing a tree has gone viral. This footage highlights the snake's impressive strength and ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida. The event aims ...

The snakes first came to Florida when a hurricane blew off a python breeding center. Ever since they have been breeding like ...

BC-Indonesia-Giant Snake,0218 AP Photos JAK105-106 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet long and weighs nearly 990 pounds, a local ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

Snakes might not top everyone’s list of favorite creatures, but there’s no denying they’ve mastered the art of growing long, heavy, and—let’s be honest—pretty intimidating. A few are so big their ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive ...

Scientists at the University of Florida say the 160-pound, 17-foot-long Burmese python found in the Everglades last week is the largest one ever seen in the state, and more evidence that the ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...