Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, when the unexpected happened. It was the seventh alligator we’d seen on the two-mile bike ride ...

Florida has long been the land of big, scary swamp critters, but the Burmese python has taken over as the king of creepiness in the past several decades. These largely aquatic beasts are living ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Tuscaloosa say they may have identified the owner of the 15-foot (4.5 meter) yellow python that’s been the subject of a week-long search. A spokesman for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --A group of python hunters in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve banded together to capture a monster 17-foot snake that tipped the scales at 198 pounds. Conservationist Mike ...

MULGOWIE, Australia -- A python in Australia had a bad run of luck after a larger snake came along and stole the python's meal, but not before eating the python itself. Jessica Mace found the two ...

An animal-loving Chatsworth family was reunited Wednesday with Big Mama, their roughly 15-foot pet python who’d been missing for about a week, after a next door neighbor spotted the adolescent snake ...

A national preserve in South Florida has reported catching a python that was more than 17 feet long and weighed 140 pounds. The female reptile is the largest ever caught at Big Cypress National ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A Florida mom wearing an apron and flip-flips saved the day while helping her python hunting son trap a big snake ahead of Thanksgiving. The video has gone viral on TikTok.

While a big eater, the 15-foot python is not considered remarkably large. Some have been found longer than 18 feet. Scott Boback Dickinson College Pythons eat a lot. No surprise there. But in a new ...