A new arrival is turning heads at the Brevard Zoo, where staff recently welcomed an adult male Burmese python into its care.

Under current state law, many animals are banned from private possession including lions and tigers and bears.

Pythons are among the largest and most powerful snakes in the world, found across Africa, Asia, and Australia in a wide range ...

The biggest species of snakes are divided into two categories based on scientific research, i.e., the longest and the ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

Wild predators must regularly hunt or forage to survive. While many animals graze or scavenge, large constrictor snakes rely on overpowering and swallowing prey whole. But even experienced predators ...

Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...