A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...

Florida is unfortunately home to a lot of uninvited guests — especially invasive animals. But there might be another way to control their rapidly increasing populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

A California ball python was captured at an In-N-Out Burger 50 miles from her home. While Florida has ball pythons, our challenge is dealing with the much larger Burmese pythons. Sometimes a mouse won ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.