UC Professor Bruce Jayne poses with a Burmese python specimen with a 22-centimeter gape, right, compared to an even larger specimen with a 26-centimeter gape. Credit: Bruce Jayne UC Professor Bruce ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A burgeoning population of huge pythons – many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big – appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, ...

He’s been catching snakes for 19 years but a recent find in a Bentley Park backyard has shot to the top of David Walton’s favourites list. “It was quite an eye-catcher because it’s such a pleasant ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has one of the world's premiere Burmese python research, detection and removal programs, and this past season the python team there literally caught tons of snakes ...

A large Southern African python was unexpectedly found next to the M19 highway in New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal A snake catcher, with help from the municipality, safely secured the snake, dismissing ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...

Python hearts balloon in size as they're digesting, and now scientists are studying them for clues about human heart health. The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the ...

Burmese pythons have become a big problem for local wildlife in the Florida Everglades. Scientists developed a robot rabbit that’s used to lure the invasive snakes so they can be caught. The robots ...