In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the biggest ones ever documented. Jake Waleri is a 22-year-old from Naples.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two ...

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.

The search for invasive pythons takes hunters deep into the Everglades. Every rustle in the grass could mean a massive snake nearby. These predators are not native to Florida. Stopping them is a race ...

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan.

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. But one curious exception has been the main island of ...