Everglades python hunters break apart 2 'mating balls' as female remains on the loose

Photo Credit: iStock A viral video from the Everglades is putting new focus on a disturbing part of Florida's python problem.

Pet reptiles get cold-blooded reception as bylaw exemption for ball pythons shot down

A request to change a municipal bylaw and allow local breeding and keeping of ball pythons as pets was denied during Monday’s town council meeting.

Record 8,000 pounds of pythons pulled from southwest Florida using sex drive

Biologists removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The biggest ...