The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium said goodbye to a long-time inhabitant and "gentle giant" of a snake. The zoo announced the death of its 26-year-old leucistic Burmese python on Friday. She died of ...

Invasive species can wreak havoc wherever they're found, but Florida has a few that are particularly dangerous. Here are the ...

(Photo Provided) “Now they’re going after alligators,” Hackathorn, 56, owner of Straight Up Tree Service, said. Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia. The snakes were released to the ...

All four pythons were adult Burmese pythons, each measuring around three metres in length and weighing approximately 20–22 ...

They are members of the family Pythonidae, which also includes the Burmese python, ball python and green tree python. While they are not the heaviest snake breed (although they're in the top three ...

If a snake holds up on a tree island or levee during breeding ... 140-pound invasive Burmese python into an area west of Boca Raton. (Bill Kearney/South Florida Sun Sentinel) The trackers have ...

The exotic pet trade has seen an explosive growth in the last two decades, bolstered by series like Netflix’s “The Tiger King ...

“Now they’re going after alligators,” Hackathorn, 56, owner of Straight Up Tree Service, said. Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia. The snakes were released to the wild by pet ...

On the rare occasion, the temperatures in South Florida drop to the mid-to-low 40s for about 8 hours or more. This is enough time for iguanas to become incapacitated. The iguanas aren't usually dead ...

The first time I saw a Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the Everglades, I was not impressed. This was in 1999, back before there ...

The viral video captures the python hanging from a thick branch of the tree as a crowd watches rescuers at work ... Earlier this month, a 17-foot Burmese python weighing nearly 100 kg was rescued near ...