If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As quick as a mongoose, 90-pound, 5-foot-2-inch Lindsay McAfee pounced on the 7-foot Burmese python, pinned its head to the ground with an aluminum snake hook and stowed it in a ...

Burmese pythons are too good at what they do — they’re nearly undetectable to both humans and their prey, they barely need to move and when they do they’re deadly. On top of that, they have lots of ...

Capturing a 13-foot-1-inch Burmese python during the first weekend of the 2016 Python Challenge wasn’t particularly scary for 69-year-old Jack Merwin, even though it was the biggest snake he had ever ...

A pair of python hunters stumbled across a python swim party that might offer new insights into their nesting patterns in<a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new regulation in Arkansas that prohibits anyone from breeding, selling or importing any of five large python species without a permit has received backlash from critics who ...

Python researcher Bruce Jayne urges people to not be afraid of the nonvenomous snakes but his descriptions of how they trap, squeeze and kill their prey might make you squeamish After authorities ...

A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though ...

A snake has completed an extraordinary interstate journey from Queensland to the Central Coast, after hitching an eight-hour ...

After being captivated by professional wrestling last weekend, the residents of Woodland Skilled Nursing, located at 678 Third St., enjoyed a calmer but no less exciting event when they hosted Python ...