If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana is home to different kinds of nonvenomous and venomous snakes. There are 55 species and sub-species of snakes, seven of which are venomous, according to Brad ...

Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles. In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend ...

You’ve read the stories. You’ve seen the pictures. You know what can go wrong when a four-meter python crawls out of your ...

A menagerie of cold-blooded creatures drew visitors to Albany's Capital Center on Sunday. They came to visit rooms full of lizards, snakes and turtles for the Reptile Expo. Mauro DeLuca, 7, of ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s such a ...

Taylor Stanberry is the Ultimate Grand Prize Winner for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge thanks to her efforts to eliminate 60 of the invasive species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem.

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 ...

ADELAIDE, Australia -- It seems this snake was a little over-eager about his hankering for barbecue sauce. A snake had to be treated by vets at the University of Adelaide after it swallowed barbecue ...

These hunters couldn't just slither their way out of this one! In order to win a cash prize, they had to face a snake head-on. Hailing from the U.S. and Canada, more than 900 people participated in ...

Keeping snakes as pets is a fascinating, unique and exotic interest as they are living pieces of nature that do not behave ...