Pythons and anacondas are often mistaken for one another, and it's easy to see why. Both snakes are long, powerful, non-venomous, and rely on ambushing and constriction to subdue their prey. However, ...

While attention usually focuses on the Burmese python population wreaking havoc across the Florida Everglades and slithering its way north, green anacondas and boa constrictors also have been seen ...

The largest and longest Burmese python tracking study of its kind -- here or in its native range -- is providing researchers and resource managers new information that may help target control efforts ...

Invasive snakes pose a significant threat to US ecosystems, disrupting wildlife balance and altering food webs. Species like ...

Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and evolution -- ...

For five years, scientists tracked the 19 Burmese pythons around the Everglades, following their radio and GPS signals. They were hoping to learn where the invasive snakes prefer to live. The answer ...

Efforts to control invasive Burmese pythons in Florida may get some help from the largest tracking study ever conducted on the snakes — in either Florida or their native Southern and Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

Sarasota Jungle Gardens is introducing its visitors to the largest snakes in the world. The new exhibit features five species of giant snakes in a renovated home, a cave-like structure with glass ...

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla.-- The largest and longest Burmese Python tracking study of its kind -- here or in its native range -- is providing researchers and resource managers new information that ...