Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...

Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek says Southwest Florida has a python problem. “In the last five breeding seasons, we removed 10,000 pounds of python from a less than 40 square mile area. That’s five ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition aimed at eliminating invasive Burmese pythons. The challenge takes place in designated breeding grounds in and around the Everglades. While ...

A handful of Naples snake hunters and their 19-foot trophy Burmese python made international headlines in the past week or so as the snake is thought to be the longest Burmese python caught in the ...

The invasive Burmese pythons are eating South Florida's native wildlife at an alarming rate, and efforts to capture and kill the snakes are focused on the breeding females of the species. "These ...

Even breeding like bunnies can’t save some mammals in Everglades National Park from invading Burmese pythons. When the heat of summer revved up snake activity, the pythons ate up to a fifth of a study ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...