A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive by hundreds of ticks will almost assuredly give you the creeps. It’s ...

Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from Naples claimed the top prize.

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, when the unexpected happened. It was the seventh alligator we’d seen on the two-mile bike ride ...

EVERGLADES, Florida (KTRK) -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after ...

A large alligator nicknamed 'Godzilla' was caught on video dragging an enormous Burmese python through the water in the Florida Everglades.

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...