Burmese pythons have been spreading across southern Florida for more than four decades, consuming native mammals at rates ...

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

Burmese pythons were released into Florida through the pet trade, and now the Everglades may hold hundreds of thousands of ...

Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.

Hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge in July will have an abundance of python meet. But it is advised that ...

Florida pays contracted hunters to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Native to Southeast Asia, the pythons have caused a severe decline in native mammal populations. Conservative ...

Burmese pythons may be the new slithering Johnny Appleseeds of the Everglades, eating the animals that eat plant seeds and pooing them out in larger swaths of fertile land for better and worse. A ...

Snakes have one of the strangest and most shocking feeding styles in the animal kingdom. Unlike mammals, they do not tear their food into pieces or chew it before swallowing. Instead, many snakes use ...

Eating its prey can be a process for a python, which is why it relies so heavily on its jaw to get the job done, including ...

A new downtown Columbia restaurant called Rabbit Food is putting a fresh spin on healthy eating. Owner Erika Rodriguez-Ellison says the concept grew from her own family’s push to change their ...

Researchers observed vultures eating invasive Burmese python eggs for the first time in Florida. The only other documented predator of python eggs in Florida is the bobcat. Scientists believe the ...