Burmese python

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the opening of registration for the python challenge, at a press conference Thursday.

The female was nearly 19 feet long.

On a steamy August day, Frank Ridgely stands inside a chilly surgical suite at Zoo Miami, preparing to slice into a seven-and-a-half foot-long Burmese…

The South Florida Water Management District Governing Board agreed Thursday to double its number of hunters who are trying to eradicate invasive Burmese...

In the Florida Everglades, a team of invasive species researchers got more than it bargained for – a 17-foot-long python, plus 73 developing python…

The U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, is collecting DNA to track a new snake hybrid in the Everglades.A genetic research study, published this month, examined…

Payrolled python hunters. They’re the latest story on the South Florida python beat, and they’re drawing national and international media attention,…

Artist Jenna Efrein loves the Everglades. Since moving to South Florida, she's spent a lot of time exploring the ecosystem and learning about the…

A hidden military base. Python catchers from India. Galápagos tortoises and a world-renowned herpetologist. It sounds like an Indiana Jones movie.But it's…

Burmese pythons, lionfish, african land snails -- these are just a few of the invasive species considered threats to Florida ecosystems. And the fact that…