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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...