Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason. Even after 294 Burmese pythons were removed in just 10 days, experts ...

Invasive Burmese pythons have slithered to a new location in South Florida, establishing a colony outside the previously ...

A team of researchers tracking invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while ...

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...

On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge starts July 10. It is another opportunity for hunters to put a dent in the invasive Burmese python population and win some money while doing it. Whether you are a ...