The capture of a 198-pound Burmese python in Big Cypress National Preserve has rattled many Floridians, but experts say the state must brace for bigger pythons spread across a wider area. There is ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

The invasive Burmese python slithering around the Everglades, and now in some other places in Florida, is starting to give the alligator a run for its money when it comes to the number of jaw-dropping ...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. A Burmese python weighing in at 202 pounds was captured, marking it as the second-heaviest ever recorded in Florida. It was 13 pounds away from breaking the record, and just one ...

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe said this is the fattest python she’s ever seen. (Amy Siewe) Conservationist Mike Elfenbein was at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida with his teen son ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission located and captured one of the heaviest Burmese pythons recorded over the course of the state's python removal program.The python was caught by ...

The 198-pound python counts as the second heaviest ever found in Florida, the state says. It was caught by hunters Nov. 3 at Big Cypress National Preserve in southwest Florida. Facebook screengrab The ...