It started in the 1990s in southern Florida. Anglers and hunters in the Everglades began noticing the raccoons, rabbits, armadillos, and other small critters they normally saw before dawn and after ...

Burmese pythons – nonvenomous, but large enough to eat alligators and household pets – are moving north across Florida from the Everglades toward Georgia, taking out hundreds of native species and ...

Q. What's the latest on 'new areas of establishment' for pythons? Are more of these invasive snakes moving north? FWC: Burmese pythons are currently considered established from just south of Lake ...

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 ...

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.

Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially. By Asher Elbein The ball python ...