Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top of her chest Monday night.

Most pets cannot survive in the wild and if they can, the animal has the potential to establish itself in local habitats, ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel kicks off its annual speaker series with a python elimination expert ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

APOPKA, Fla. — Florida wildlife experts are seeing a sharp rise in people surrendering exotic pets — and, even more alarming, releasing nonnative species directly into the wild. The growing trend of ...

A new TV show is shining a light on just how much damage an invasive snake is doing to Floridian ecosystems. ABC's "Wildlife Nation: Expedition Florida" examined Burmese pythons in a recent episode.

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species from Southeast Asia now established in South Florida. While freezing temperatures can be lethal to pythons, evidence suggests they may be evolving to tolerate ...

Such a Florida way of problem solving. It’s no secret that Florida has a python problem. Thanks to exotic animals trading and Floridians releasing their pet snakes into the wild, Burmese pythons were ...

Ian Bartoszek (left) and his team caught this 110-pound Burmese python in Florida. (Conservancy of Southwest Florida photo) Halloween, that spooky holiday that festers with images of arched-back black ...