The swamps of southern Florida are home to all manner of intimidating apex predators, but it was a new experience when a team of trackers found a 7-foot-wide mound of pythons in a marsh near Naples.

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.

There are your run-of-the-mill invasive species, such as Asian carp or zebra mussels — and then there are Burmese pythons. Well, first we have to capture a snake, so we look for them, and then we'll ...

A father and daughter on a hunting expedition in the Florida Everglades found two piles of pythons within hours of each other, video shows. Video screengrab A team of hunters searching for invasive ...

Wildlife experts in Southwest Florida recently snagged 500 pounds of Burmese pythons - including one more than 16 feet long, after finding a large mating ball of the snakes not far from the city of ...

Love is in the air ‒ with snake mating season as summer temperatures kick in and the slithery reptiles are out and about. But it may not all be about getting caught out in the act: the stars of Snakes ...

Ruben Ramirez has a simple strategy for hunting the pythons that are overrunning the Florida Everglades. "To catch a snake, you gotta think like one. You gotta be one," says Ramirez, founder of ...

Consistently warm days in the last week have led to snakes swarming across the Gold Coast, with cold-blooded male vertebrates desperately seeking their female counterparts. Tony Harrison from Harrison ...

Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) biologists and permittees began annual eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon ...