Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Invasive Burmese pythons have decimated native species in Florida. The state pays 100 contractors to hunt the pythons, which are ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — A recent discovery of the Asian lungworm in Palm Beach County has raised concerns about the future of Florida's native snake populations. Researchers believe this ...

Within the next couple of decades, the Key Largo woodrat could go extinct if the Burmese python population continues as is, a ...

A highly venomous coral snake was sliced open by a Florida surgeon, and what he found has stark ramifications for Florida’s vast snake population. The snake had three large parasitic worms in its tiny ...

EVERGLADES CITY, Fl. (KDKA) -- A Pennsylvania native was one of five men who fought the second heaviest python caught in Florida. State College native Carter Gavlock now lives in Florida where he ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. — Alex McDuffie grew up chasing and catching snakes across the Tri-State, but he recently caught his biggest yet in south Florida. "I've been catching snakes my whole life and I've been ...

The state pays 100 contractors to hunt the pythons, which are cryptic and hard to locate. "It's not the pythons' fault that they're here, but they do have to go," one python hunter said. Amy Siewe has ...