Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

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 ...

Florida is bracing for its most intense cold weather since 2010. Researchers are watching to see what the chill could mean ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl ...

Florida’s 10-day Python Challenge is underway as hunters take to the Everglades for glory, a $10,000 prize, and to help rid the state of its invasive Burmese python problem. According to the FWC, the ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

Ian Easterling, a biologist with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, captured a 153-pound female Burmese python, one of the largest caught in Florida in 2025. Conservancy of Southwest ...

Experts believe the snakes may be dispersing from the Everglades as their population grows, using connected waterways as highways. While not considered an overwhelming threat to humans, pythons can ...