Reaching lengths of seven metres or more, the reticulated python is the world’s longest and third heaviest snake. It kills by constriction, squeezing the life from its prey, before swallowing it whole ...

Three hunters standing waist-deep in the Florida Everglades fight to drag a 17-foot Burmese python out of the water, and the snake refuses to cooperate. What these men are actually battling goes far ...

Once again, registration has opened for the Florida Python Challenge, in which participants compete in the Everglades to remove the invasive Burmese pythons to win a cash prize. The volunteers gather ...

Florida is facing a significant invasion of Burmese pythons, with estimates placing their population in the tens of thousands. The invasive pythons are negatively impacting native wildlife by ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...