It’s a world-first event: the hatching of Ball Python eggs that are breaking new ground in reptile breeding. Watch the ...

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...

Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek says Southwest Florida has a python problem. “In the last five breeding seasons, we removed 10,000 pounds of python from a less than 40 square mile area. That’s five ...

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their ...

The 2022 Florida Python Challenge culled a total of 231 of the invasive snakes from South Florida. Close to 1,000 participants from 32 states and as far away as Canada and Latvia fanned out across the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Florida Fish & Wildlife Director Nick Wiley ...

STUART, Fla. – The war being waged against Florida's most notorious pest experienced a recent battlefield victory. It's a sign humans could finally be gaining ground against one of the greatest ...

Charles Dachton used knowledge, and defied logic, to win the 2021 Florida Python Challenge. Dachton, a 61-year-old Southwest Ranches resident and retired Davie police officer, caught a whopping 41 ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...