They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their prey and crush them.

Six snake species in Florida can kill you, but few people have died in 20 years. Still, researchers say we need to learn more about why we get bitten.

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 ...

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 ...

The tens of thousands of pythons pulsating through the Everglades have essentially no natural predators in Florida to keep them in check. Except for right now — as more than 600 human hunters scatter ...

Florida's Simpsons-like Python Challenge has ended, and the results aren't the greatest. Of the estimated 150,000 Burmese pythons populating the state's Everglades, only 68 pythons were killed during ...

Iguanas can freeze and fall from trees, then become easy prey; pythons can shiver to stay alive from the cold weather.

A person pulling a slice of pizza from a pie - Nitas/Getty Images What if you could save a unique ecosystem and also get free pizza? Deep in Everglades City, Florida, you'll find Wildman's Pizza, ...

A "shocked" Florida woman found a live python tangled up in her car's engine, and now it's is giving people fits on social media. It happened Wednesday, Nov. 5, and the snake was in the 4-foot range ...

Port St. Lucie, Florida — Officers caught a 12-foot python Friday that neighbors said had been eating the area's cats. Sgt. John Holman arrived on the scene at about 7:20 a.m.and found a dead cat in ...