COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Five hundred pounds of invasive Burmese pythons. That's what wildlife experts in southwest Florida said they recently captured after discovering a large ball of mating snakes — ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

It is the only intact remnant of the northern Everglades in Palm Beach County — an emerald marshland of peaceful blackwater where cattails ring vast wet prairies of spikerush, and teardrop-shaped tree ...

Pythons are non-native to Florida and non-venomous snakes. Burmese pythons are one of the largest snakes in the world. The ball python found in Vero Beach was "friendly" and docile when rescued. A ...

A Columbia woman experienced a rude awakening on the early morning of Nov. 5 after turning on the bathroom light in her apartment. She let out a scream when she discovered a ball python behind the ...

On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

Unseasonably cold weather in Florida affects native and invasive reptile species. Iguanas can become immobilized and fall from trees when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. Alligators ...