Researchers are constantly learning more about these adaptable, invasive snakes, which have continued their spread northward in recent years. It started in the 1990s in southern Florida. Anglers and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, ...

Burmese pythons – nonvenomous, but large enough to eat alligators and household pets – are moving north across Florida from the Everglades toward Georgia, taking out hundreds of native species and ...

It started in the 1990s in southern Florida. Anglers and hunters in the Everglades began noticing the raccoons, rabbits, armadillos, and other small critters they normally saw before dawn and after ...

Florida is filled with snakes, especially pythons. So much so that every single year, people put their lives on hold to go out and hunt the as part of the annual python challenge. The U.S. Department ...