A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

It was gator vs. python on a Florida golf course recently. The gator was victorious, though the creature sat still for hours — with the python's head in its jaws — as golfers took photos of the ...

After following all of the official rules and regulations, Freddy and Mike dressed to kill—in their knee-high snake boots, ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the Burmese Pythons slithering through the Everglades. However, one species has been ...

A rare Florida cold front stunned and killed thousands of invasive iguanas, but wildlife experts warn the population is likely to rebound due to their high reproductive rate.

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

WFLA reporter Amanda Holly was not content to just talk about Florida's python problem from the safety of the studio. On Tuesday, she waded into a patch of sawgrass near Naples and helped haul a ...