Because of this, they are not protected and the state allows the humane killing of pythons without a permit or hunting ...

EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. – For years, the Burmese python has run rampant in the Florida Everglades. The invasive snake has ...

Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S.

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. That's the invasive species that's been wreaking havoc across ...

Read Next: Largest Python Ever Captured in Florida Is Nearly 18 Feet Long Roughly 10 years ago, Bartoszek and his team caught a 31-and-a-half-pound Burmese python that spit up a 35-pound whitetail. A ...

The largest Burmese python ever captured in Florida weighed a record 215 pounds, stretching 17.7 feet long. Previous studies of pythons found the largest gape diameter was 8.7 inches, but the ...

In something straight out of a horror movie, scientists have found that Burmese pythons can open their mouths even wider than we previously thought. These snakes' enormous jaws may be able to open as ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found ...

Snakes range greatly in size. The world longest snake is the reticulated python. The longest ever found in the species ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are ...

A new study shows a Burmese python's maximal gape is 10.2 inches. The measurements equate to a circumference of 32 inches.