When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

For the last decade, scientists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and other groups have hauled out more than 1,000 snakes from 160 square miles in south Florida – more than 30,000 pounds of ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has been partnering with Naples Zoo for their Conservancy’s Burmese Python Research and Removal program for the past 10 years. Burmese pythons are caught and ...

When researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced they’d bagged the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida earlier this summer, the catch highlighted a secret weapon in ...

UC Professor Bruce Jayne poses with a Burmese python specimen with a 22-centimeter gape, right, compared to an even larger specimen with a 26-centimeter gape. Credit: Bruce Jayne UC Professor Bruce ...

Burmese pythons are the bad guys of the Everglades — devouring entire populations of small mammals, raiding wading bird nests and disrupting the natural balance of predator and prey. The invasive ...

NAPLES, Fla. — Invasive Burmese pythons have decimated native mammal populations in Florida's Greater Everglades ecosystem for years, but a new partnership aims to expand the battle against the ...