The Florida Python Challenge awards hunters for the longest and most snakes caught. In 2024, the prizes are much bigger.

Nobody can say for sure how many snakes live in the wild but experts estimate the number is in the hundreds of thousands in ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

There has been a truly massive effort to clean up the roads in Southwest Florida following the impacts left from Hurricanes ...

A photo out of South Florida went viral after it captured a massive 15-foot-long python opening its jaw wide enough to ...

NAPLES, Fla. – A shocking new study is showing just how dangerous Burmese pythons are for the environment. Scientists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida came upon a python that was eating ...

A Burmese python in southern Florida was caught on video swallowing a 77-pound white-tailed deer, a feat that biologists say proves that the invasive predators are capable of consuming bigger prey ...

Biologists studying the invasive reptiles’ impacts on Florida wildlife recently documented the extraordinary predation event.

NAPLES, Fla. - A study by biologists in Southwest Florida has uncovered that massive snakes known as Burmese pythons can consume larger prey than initially thought. According to the Conservancy of ...

This means that these snakes, which have rapidly invaded Florida, might be able to eat larger and larger prey, and therefore have more of an impact on the ecosystem. "Knowing the size of prey that ...

Nobody can say for sure how many snakes live in the wild but experts estimate the number is in the hundreds of thousands in South Florida. And they have been slowly spreading north, with captures ...