In a pasture behind Charlotte Sports Park, under a cloud-streaked blue sky with a breeze breaking through the warm sun, it’s a perfect day to wrangle a Burmese python. To McKayla Spencer’s right, in ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 ...

MARTIN: So did you know about the Florida Python Challenge? INSKEEP: No, this is a challenge of pythons, I assume, like a big python race. MARTIN: No, it is not. INSKEEP: OK. MARTIN: It is held every ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

Residents of downtown Los Angeles were recently shocked to discover a gigantic 20-foot python in a dumpster near an apartment complex. Locals originally thought the snake was fake, but further ...

Florida's annual python hunt in the Everglades will run Aug. 9-18, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez announced in May at a news conference in Miami-Dade County. Burmese Pythons are an invasive species that pose ...

Certain species of snakes are large and strong enough and possess the appropriate ability to devour big prey like human beings. Such snakes form part of the constrictor family and rank among the world ...

The Florida Python Challenge, a Florida Fish and Wildlife conservation effort to help protect the Everglades ecosystem from invasive Burmese pythons, starts this week. First identified in Everglades ...

OCHOPEE, Florida (Reuters) -Amy Siewe was a successful real estate agent -- but her life changed after she captured her first python in Florida's Everglades. "I just had this fascination with snakes.