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 ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...

Florida is bracing for its most intense cold weather since 2010. Researchers are watching to see what the chill could mean for an iconic native species and invasive reptiles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle that saw the slithering beast drag the professional some 15 feet ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

Ian Easterling, a biologist with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, captured a 153-pound female Burmese python, one of the largest caught in Florida in 2025. Conservancy of Southwest ...

A Florida python hunter recently captured a 202-pound Burmese python, one of the heaviest on record. Although not venomous, pythons have sharp, fang-like teeth that can cause painful bites. Invasive ...

Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor’s yard. Ronquillo, owner of Humane Iguana Control, assumed it was a harmless ...

Experts believe the snakes may be dispersing from the Everglades as their population grows, using connected waterways as highways. While not considered an overwhelming threat to humans, pythons can ...