Burmese python

Registration has opened for Florida's annual python hunting challenge. The competition is not for the faint of heart.

The segregationist past behind the founder of 'The City Beautiful.' A New York cancer survivor becomes the third person to achieve remission from HIV. And it’s Wildlife Thursday, we’re talking about removing pythons … and using their eggs for a tasty cookie recipe.

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…