Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

Calling all nature lovers! While in Baton Rouge, you may want to plan a trip to the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, a 103-acre facility that boasts more than a mile of gravel paths and boardwalks that ...

Scientists warn the eel could be more catastrophic than the Burmese python, causing an "avalanche of prey loss." The eels have caused massive declines in crayfish, small fish, and amphibian ...

The invasive Asian swamp eel was patient in its ambush. It lay in wait, innocuous for 15 years, an air-breathing environmental timebomb, a brooding mucus covered virus in the freshwater veins of ...

A new documentary called "The Python Hunt" follows amateur snake hunters during the annual Florida Python Challenge. The film, shot in the Everglades, won a Special Jury Prize at the South by ...

The Virginia State Lottery was going to hold a drawing on April 25, 1827, for the benefit of the Dismal Swamp Canal Co. Whole tickets were $4, half-tickets $2, and a quarter-ticket could be purchased ...