The ball python is one of the most popular snakes amongst those that you will find as pets, and for most of their owners, ...

Researchers Ian Bartoszek (left), Ian Easterling, and intern Kyle Findley (right) transport a record-breaking female Burmese Python—weighing 215 pounds and measuring 17.7 feet in length—to ...

Tippy Prescott/IG @tippyprescott The python's enormous size suggests that it's a female, as male pythons tend to grow to only about 14 feet. Prescott also said that a snake expert had told them ...

The dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge are set. Take a look at the longest and heaviest Burmese pythons ever caught ...

A giant female Burmese python swallows a full-sized whitetail deer whole. Photo courtesy Ian Bartoszek / Conservancy of Southwest Florida After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in ...

Burmese pythons are prolific breeders, with each female able to produce dozens of eggs each season. Removing females is a way of controlling the population. "Each breeding season [Ronin] leads us ...

In December 2022, biologists stumbled upon a gruesome scene of a nearly 15-foot female Burmese python eating a fully-grown white tail near on private property near Naples, Florida. Conservancy of ...

Florida is hosting its annual 10-day python challenge from July 11 to 20, where participants can register to hunt and ...

Try ingesting a 77-pound white-tailed deer. That's what one of three female Burmese pythons did when the scientists were observing them for the study, which was published in the Journal of ...