Record set in Florida: a 19-foot-long Burmese python is captured in Big Cypress, revealing new clues about the ecological ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, where the state’s annual Python Challenge is underway. I pull up at dusk to a half-dozen kids ...

CHATSWORTH, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 15-foot python named "Big Mama" escaped from its cage in Chatsworth, leaving residents fearful for the safety of themselves and their pets. The reticulated python ...

Florida has long been the land of big, scary swamp critters, but the Burmese python has taken over as the king of creepiness in the past several decades. These largely aquatic beasts are living ...

A massive snake was found hiding in a very unusual place, having tucked itself up behind one of the wheels of a car. The Australian snake's rescue from its dangerous secret spot was performed by snake ...

A 14-foot reticulated python was discovered on Feb. 14 on the side of a road in eastern Long Island, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said in a news release. Details of the find ...

India, being one of the countries with a very rich biodiversity, houses several species of venomous snakes. The "Big Four" snakes are said to be the most dangerous ones not due to their size but due ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

Hulking hunters like Burmese pythons may be famous for scarfing up deer, alligators and other enormous prey (SN: 11/25/15). But one unassuming little African snake may take the title for most outsized ...

Forty-six years ago this summer, a gallon of gas cost 70 cents. “Shadow Dancing,” sung in a breathy voice by the Bee Gees’ kid brother, Andy Gibb, was disco-stepping atop the billboard charts. And ...