The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is such a problem for Florida that it’s legal to hunt the massive invasive species ...

Conservation teams in South Florida just wrapped their most ambitious python removal season yet, and the strategy they used ...

Few creatures are more conspicuous than the green iguana. Four feet in length with a spiky back. The distended belly of a middle-aged football fan who’s just chugged his way through a bucket of Coors ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Guinness World Records confirmed that a massive female reticulated python found in Indonesia is the longest wild snake ever formally measured. Discovered in the Maros region of Sulawesi, the serpent ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

"I needed to get out of that roof. I needed to put on a mask." ...

Pythons and anacondas are often confused as being the same, and it’s easy to see why. Both are massive, non-venomous snakes that kill their prey by biting and squeezing it to death. But despite their ...

Florida never ceases to amaze. Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the state’s latest effort to control the Burmese python problem in the Everglades involves turning the snakes into handbags, belts, ...

A lot of fathers would prefer their two-year-old daughters not to ride a giant Burmese python down the street like a pony -- but not Jamal Amwasi of Ramallah.The 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant ...

The reticulated python was spotted slithering around a homeowner’s backyard in Phuket, Thailand Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...