In Florida, hunters have successfully caught and removed hundreds of pythons as part of official conservation efforts.

Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida’s invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...

What started as a routine walk on Monday along one of Atlanta's busiest trails quickly turned into something out of a movie. Joseph Ragland says he and his friends were heading back from dinner near ...

ATLANTA — Video captured a man handling an 8- to 10-foot snake found along the Atlanta Beltline, but environmental officials are warning the public against handling wildlife they find. Joseph Ragland ...

A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the island’s prehistoric ecosystem. The bone belongs to a giant python that ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on Taiwan, an island where no pythons exist today. The surprising discovery is ...

On February 4th, the longest wild snake in history was recorded according to Guinness World Records. The reticulated python was discovered in Indonesia and is thought to be the longest wild snake ...

I’m not sure there’s a person in the world who could scroll past a short video of a man calmly letting a 20-foot python slither across a grassy park without stopping. The snake is enormous, thicker ...