Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...
Talk about a wild discovery. A team of wildlife experts in Southwest Florida came across a huge pile of snakes in a marsh that totaled 500 pounds. The startling sight took place on Feb. 21 in Naples, ...
Police in Jasper County plan to arrest a suspect after rescuing 52 “improperly housed snakes” that were part of an abandoned breeding operation.
Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that have significantly impacted the native mammal population. The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities ...
A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...
The snakes first came to Florida when a hurricane blew off a python breeding center. Ever since they have been breeding like ...
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office relocated over 50 snakes Nov. 19 after the owner abandoned them, the office said.
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Coming across one python may be shocking enough for the average person, but what about 11 of them? That's what one team of trackers experienced after finding the snakes in two ...
In the dark hours after midnight, a tiny endangered mouse foraged its way through a matrix of subterranean pipes at the abandoned Nike Missile Base in Key Largo. Little did it know that a massive ...
Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...