A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason. Even after 294 Burmese pythons were removed in just 10 days, experts ...

The event also draws attention to the risks of releasing nonnative pets into the wild.

Eric Suarez, research program coordinator for University of Florida Croc Docs, holds a female python during a research trip ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Florida's python problem is widely tied to people importing exotic pets and releasing or losing them into the wild.

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...