Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive ...

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

To write about the increase in snake encounters in Australia, a journalist had to get hands-on with the slithering reptiles. By Natasha Frost Natasha Frost is a reporter based in Melbourne, Australia.

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood out.

A mysterious parasite from Asia is infecting snakes over most of Florida, and researchers believe it was likely brought here by invasive Burmese pythons. The first documentations of the 3-inch-long ...