Invasive reptiles may be quietly altering how plants regenerate, moving seeds across the Everglades and complicating efforts ...

The annual amateur Florida Python Challenge gets hoopla and cash, but scientists harvest the real goods: tons of snakes and ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set ...

A request to change a municipal bylaw and allow local breeding and keeping of ball pythons as pets was denied during Monday’s town council meeting. The discussion was first prompted during the April ...

The Conservancy’s python tracking team made the first capture of the breeding season with scout snake #118 “Snaquan” in November 2025, removing a 17-foot, 148 lb female python. Conservancy of ...

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

Invasive Burmese pythons continue to flourish throughout the Florida Everglades as these massive snakes are perfectly suited to life in South Florida swamps. They possess ideal camouflage to hide from ...

May 14 (UPI) --Police in Ohio said a report of "unwanted slithering" in a Westlake neighborhood resulted in the detention of a ball python. The Westlake Police Department said on social media that ...

The collection, comprised of 13 stories, weaves together the heartbreaking and the hilarious. Colette is the former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes for Bay Magazine. Anyone can ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...