The largest python snake nest in Florida history was removed from a well-known wildlife area earlier this month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A 13 foot and ...

A handful of Naples, Florida, snake hunters and their 19-foot trophy Burmese python made international headlines recently as the snake is thought to be the longest Burmese python caught in the wild.

Burmese pythons are thought to have come to Florida as pets in the mid-1990s. From 1996 to 2006, around 99,000 pythons were brought to the US to be sold as pets.

And, in June 2021, a trail camera captured a bobcat raiding a python nest and eating the eggs. “There’s a bit of a pattern emerging that—and you’d expect as much—over time, the ecosystem ...

A team of hunters searching for invasive Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades stumbled upon two suspected “mating balls,” but with a mysterious twist. In both cases, the piles of snakes ...