Are pythons aggressive toward humans when captured? FWC: Burmese pythons are a cryptic species and, similar to other snake species, their first defense is to blend in with the environment. When ...

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's ...

WASHINGTON -- You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those creatures whole. But the snakes' ...

Burmese pythons are expanding their territory north along Florida's Gulf Coast, with sightings becoming more frequent in ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart works overtime by increasing its ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...

Frigid temperatures have made their to Florida. Here's how the cold weather impacts the invasive Burmese python.

Typhoon Tino in the Philippines prompted a giant python to emerge in floodwaters in the city of Talisay and slither past ...

A giant python roaming a road in Muang Phon district was captured and released back into the wild after it swallowed a dog ...