The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem. The snake hunt ...

Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

EVERGLADES, Florida (KTRK) -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after ...

Burmese pythons, according to National Geographic, are amongst the world’s largest known snakes, and are capable of reaching lengths of up to 23 feet. Which is probably something this man had no clue ...

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - Catching Burmese pythons is an itch that hundreds of hunters can’t wait to scratch every year, and for 10 days this month, they’re sending the big reptiles on the run in ...

The Papuan Olive Python, Apodora papuana, is a large, non-venomous snake native to New Guinea, distinguished by its rare ability to change skin color, ...

Even before getting into the emerging minefield of videos generated by artificial intelligence, there was always uncertainty ...

This pet is hiss-tory. A 13-foot Burmese python snake was relocated to a New York zoo after its owner admitted she was getting too big for him to care for. The three-and-a-half-year-old snake named ...

The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed ...

India, being one of the countries with a very rich biodiversity, houses several species of venomous snakes. The "Big Four" snakes are said to be the most dangerous ones not due to their size but due ...