Pythons and alligators did not share a natural habitat until the former was introduced into the Florida Everglades in the 1970s. Now, the two are fighting a battle to be the apex predator in these ...

Robotic rabbits help fight off pythons in South Florida; Grandview Market closing; Brightline ridership increases.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed more than 20 tons — 40,000 pounds — of Burmese pythons in Southwest Florida since 2013. The team uses 40 "scout snakes" to locate reproductive ...

Instead, they are constrictors: they kill by coiling their muscular bodies tightly around their prey and suffocating it before swallowing it whole. However, fatal attacks on humans are rare.

Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats. Absorbing calcium from an entire skeleton could put too much calcium into the bloodstream.

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous ...

WASHINGTON - You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those critters whole.

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey. Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats.