A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in the ...

Snake wrangler Mike Kimmel thought he was a goner when he grabbed a 17-foot python by the tail and the huge serpent reared up ...

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there are “10 easy steps” to catching a Burmese python with your hands. I learned this Thursday while taking the required online course and passing the 15-question ...

Two lofty cell towers loom over a small portion of South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. At their base is Tippy's Outpost, a small marketplace made out of cypress logs and palm fronds. Both ...

Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python. Fobb was ...

A team searching under dense vegetation in the pine flatwoods of the Everglades late last year came upon a slithering sight, the likes of which no one had found before in those parts: 215 pounds of ...

reporting from DAVIE, Fla. — So you want to bag a Burmese python, the invasive serpent with giraffe-like markings that has turned the Florida Everglades into its personal buffet? According to Florida ...

The bird and carpet python were 'literally touching noses' when a professional arrived to remove the snake, per Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, ...

At one time they were just pets, easily bought across the counter for as little as £10. Now experts say that pythons, which can grow up to 23 feet, are a major threat to the native species of the ...