Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S.

Invasive Burmese pythons continue to devastate native wildlife populations in South Florida, swallowing prey as large as deer and alligators whole. Recently, biologists witnessed a significant and ...

Studies indicate Burmese pythons' gape size is bigger than previously thought, allowing them to consume larger prey and significantly impact Florida's ecosystem by preying on larger animals. A new stu ...

EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. – For years, the Burmese python has run rampant in the Florida Everglades. The invasive snake has ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission — which ... The chase continues — a scavenger hunt for a Burmese python, one of the various threats to the preserve he has fought to protect for ...

Amy Siewe, who is well known in South Florida’s python-hunting community, is pioneering new territory in the wildlife guiding ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers in ...

(Conservancy of Southwest Florida) The Conservancy of Southwest Florida released a video of a female Burmese python eating a white-tailed deer while a crew of scientists observed on the sidelines on ...

Based on the prey items researchers found inside Burmese pythons, researchers know they will kill and consume animals nearly too big to swallow. Researchers observed one snake consuming a 77-pound ...

What’s scary about these big snakes is their ability to swallow other animals, including whole deer and alligators.

The snake enlarged its jaw to fit around the deer’s entire torso – leaving its legs and hooves hanging out on the grass.