Florida’s southern wetlands have been overtaken by a predator that does not belong there. Burmese pythons, native to ...

Take a moment to appreciate the snakes of today. The cobras, the pythons, the anacondas. Feared around the world, stars of every nightmare. Now here is a humbling thought: they are the small ones. The ...

Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. These massive constrictor snakes hail from Southeast Asia, but decades of the ...

There are a few snakes in the world able to crush and kill people, but it is very rare says James Fair. A paper written in the Journal of Herpetology in 1980 identified the world’s five largest ...

The longest-recorded king cobra was an impressive 5.85 metres long, raising the question, what sort of animal would dare to ...

A backyard surprise in New Jersey turned into a rescue operation with a stark warning after an 8-foot Burmese python was ...

Participants in the 2026 Florida Python Challenge removed 280 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida during the 10-day ...

Residents of a home in Phuket, Thailand, discovered an unexpected animal in their garden on July 27: a 15-foot python. When ...

Three python hunters received $1,000 for catching the longest snake in their division during the 2026 Florida Python ...

Each year, the challenge awards $10,000 to the individual who removes the most pythons during the event. For 2026, Tom Rahill took home the prize after capturing 96 Burmese pythons, all of which he ...

The 2026 annual Florida Python Challenge — a 10-day Everglades conservation event — removed nearly 300 snakes, the biggest ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was July 10-19 at eight designated locations in south Florida. More than 900 hunters ...