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 ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in 2020. The snake’s head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter Mike Kimmel once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm causing ...

Pythons abandon the isolation and solitariness of their summer lives to congregate in burrows for winter; they bask regularly during deep winter to regulate body temperature and to facilitate mating ...