In this first person column from 2024, a Naples resident shared details of his first-ever python hunt and what he learned.

The Burmese python has become the defining ecological problem of the Florida Everglades, a giant constrictor from Southeast ...

In a recent 10-day event in Florida, an impressive total of 280 invasive Burmese pythons were captured and removed. Tom ...

A tense breeding session unfolds as a keeper approaches a python guarding her eggs. The snake reacts defensively while the breeder carefully works to move the clutch into an incubator. The moment ...

A wildlife biologist was photographed carrying a 153-pound python on Christmas Eve. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is a leader in Burmese python research and removal efforts. Ten Burmese pythons ...

Although the farm reportedly kept cobras, king rat snakes, and water snakes, most of the escapees were not venomous.

Florida biologists set a record removing 177 Burmese pythons totaling 8,080 pounds from the Everglades in one season, plus ...

A snake breeding aggregation spotted at Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock. Credit: Laura H. Weems Last week, as I was tooling around Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock, I caught my local diamondback water ...

Floodwaters breached snake-breeding facilities during severe flooding, allowing hundreds of snakes, including venomous cobras, to escape into nearby communities and triggering multiple snakebite ...

Flooding from Typhoon Maysak washed out a snake breeding farm in Hengzhou, freeing nearly 900 snakes, including cobras.

Luckily, stopping even one breeding event can significantly reduce future snake numbers.