Burmese pythons are an invasive nightmare in Florida. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.

“How do they do that?” is a reasonable response to certain things we see in nature. Pythons and snakes like them can eat prey as big as they are, sometimes even bigger, and digest their massive single ...

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...

Invasive Burmese pythons have established a large population in South Florida after being released as exotic pets. Colder weather limits the pythons' range, but there is evidence they may be adapting ...

A python hunter earned multiple cash bonuses in March for capturing the most and longest snakes. The South Florida Water Management District's program pays contractors to remove invasive Burmese ...

Burmese pythons have pretty irregular eating habits. One of these giant reptiles can swallow an entire antelope whole and then go up to a year and a half without additional meals. Now, scientists have ...

A compound found in python blood could lead to a new kind of weight loss drug, one that suppresses appetite without some of the side effects linked to popular medications like Ozempic. Researchers at ...

Indiana Jones’ greatest fear may be obesity’s biggest enemy. Scientists at three universities have turned to nature to find a property that rivals the benefits of GLP-1 drugs without the laundry list ...

Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter. Its metabolism accelerates by a factor of thousands. Organs that had shrunk ...

A new study suggests a substance in python blood could lead to new weight loss therapies for humans. The mice given the substance lost 9% of their body weight over 28 days. Scientists believe this ...