A record 177 Burmese pythons weighing 8,080 pounds and more than 4,000 eggs were removed from Florida this breeding season.

Burmese pythons, considered to be "prohibited" invasive predators in Florida, are negatively impact native wildlife ...

The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, hikers and others have for years reported that ...

Researchers captured 177 invasive Burmese pythons and removed more than 4,100 eggs during a single breeding season in ...

In the chronicles of the natural world, Harriet is an evolutionary success story. For Florida, the nearly 13-foot-long Burmese python is an ecological nightmare. Called the “most interesting Burmese ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Florida's python problem is widely tied to people importing exotic pets and releasing or losing them into the wild.

A Burmese python named Harriet has challenged scientific understanding of the species' reproductive cycle. Harriet produced six clutches of eggs over seven reproductive cycles, a much higher rate than ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...