Over the past 12 years, roughly 770 pythons have been removed from southwest Florida by the Conservancy’s team. Dr. Jayne estimates that if each of the snakes ate one deer as big as they can ...

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap ...

Ball pythons get to be about 4 feet long, while Burmese pythons can reach between 10 and 16 feet long as adults. However, the ...

Burmese pythons are nonvenomous, but they're one of the most destructive invasive species in Florida. Can you shoot them?

The hunters work in pairs, and so Siewe's sidekick will tape the snake's mouth shut. Big pythons, like the kind Siewe catches, have large, sharp teeth that can cause deep lacerations ...

Pythons are non-native to Florida and non-venomous snakes. Burmese pythons are one of the largest snakes in the world. The ball python found in Vero Beach was "friendly" and docile when rescued.

But if you can’t fight this fierce reptile, don’t think you could take on a Burmese python, either. It turns out that when these apex predators duke it out, pythons aren’t afraid to devour ...

The big prize is $10,000 for the participant in any category who removes the most pythons. Firearms are not permitted in the Florida Python Challenge because there is no established firearm season ...