A large ball python found slithering in the parking lot of a Chili's restaurant in North Carolina turned out to have been an escaped pet missing for two months.

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

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 ...

A zoo on England's Isle of Wight said it has recaptured three of the four raccoons that escaped from the facility last week.

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Pathologists in Florida who freed a 5-foot alligator corpse from the body of an 18-foot Burmese python.

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

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.

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

A photo out of South Florida went viral after it captured a massive 15-foot-long python opening its jaw wide enough to ...

A Village of La Reynalda resident is appalled at a sleazy political ad that depicts U.S. Sen. Rick Scott as a python.